"Developed in the1950s, the pill was once optimistically hailed as a scientific cure for the world’s rising population and its consequent social and political ills. Historians, however, have begun to show that the oral contraceptive did not prove to be the social panacea envisioned by its inventors, and that its history is more complex. Much of its history cannot be disentangled from the wider political, economic, and social issues of the day .Watkins, for instance, has shown that the availability of the pill in the United States had a major impact on the relationship between doctors and female patients in the1960s. Similarly, Critchlow has illustrated how the contraceptive controversy in American politics started with the appearance of the pill and continued with the debates surrounding RU-486, the abortion pill. More recently, Marks has challenged previous histories, which have championed the pill as a North American product that fuelled the sexual revolution, suggesting that its roots and subsequent adoption were much more diverse in origin and can only be understood within a wider international framework."