http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/31/opinion/sunday/could-women-be-trusted-with-their-own-pregnancy-tests.html?ref=opinionCould Women
Be Trusted With
Their Own
Pregnancy Tests?
Unmarried teenagers would
jump off bridges, and other
crazy reasons at-home kits weren’t
approved until the late 1970s.
By PAGAN KENNEDYJULY 29, 2016
In 1967, Margaret Crane was a 26-year-old product designer at Organon Pharmaceuticals, sketching face-cream bottles and ointment jars. One day, as she walked through a lab at the company’s headquarters in New Jersey, she spotted rows of test tubes on shiny racks that twinkled under the industrial lights.
“What are these?” she asked one of the scientists.
Pregnancy tests, he said. A doctor would collect urine from his patient and send it to the company’s lab for analysis. The results would be sent back to the doctor, who would then inform the patient.
But Ms. Crane immediately saw another possibility: Why not cut out the doctor entirely?
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