some weekend thoughts

From our friends at CBS News, one of the MSM baddies, but still among those paying the big bucks for surveys and polls.

On the 50th Anniversary, the golden anniversary, of the birth control pill, some very interesting findings on attitudes and perspectives on this life changing med.

Read down to note, at the end of this cheat sheet, what CBS found on the hypothetical question on whether men would take an equivalent pharmaceutical.

HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE CBS NEWS POLL

--52% of Americans say the birth control pill has been one of the most significant medical developments of the last 50 years. Both women and men think the birth control pill has been an important medical development.



--Four in five Americans think the birth control pill has had at least some effect on American society overall, including 41% who say it’s impacted society a great deal.

54% think the pill has had a great deal of impact on women’s lives in particular.



--Most Americans (56%) say women’s lives were changed for the better because of the birth control pill. Only a quarter think it made no difference, and even fewer say the pill made women’s lives worse. Among women, 54% say women’s lives improved as a result of the pill.



--57% say the pill made it easier for women to have jobs and careers outside the home. Older Americans are especially likely to say this.

Among working women, 55% say the birth control poll has made it easier for women to enter the workforce.



--Most (83%) think the birth control has affected Americans’ attitudes toward sex, including more than half who say it had a great deal of impact on attitudes toward sex.


--In 1966, six years after the pill was approved by the FDA, fewer than half of Americans - 43% - told a Gallup Poll that birth control pills could be used safely without danger to a person’s health. That number has risen to 64% today.



--A majority of women (54%) do not think most men would take birth control pills if they were available. In contrast, two-thirds of men think most men would take the pill if it were available.



Poll story on CBSNEWS.COM

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/07/health/main6468828.shtml