The pill helped give birth to modern America. Known by one simple word, the revolutionary oral contraceptive — approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration 66 years ago this month — didn’t just prevent innumerable pregnancies. It gave women new freedom, forever changing family life and society. It disentangled sex from procreation, allowing women to control their own fertility for the first time. But the pill has spurred backlash. Many states outlawed contraceptives in the early ’60s. Catholics were also urged not to use it. Much more recently, concerns about contraceptives have been growing in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to end the constitutional right to abortion.