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Sharon Camp, Mother of the β€˜Plan B’ Contraceptive Pill, Dies at 81

14 November 2025 at 08:32
An advocate for women’s reproductive health, she started one of the world’s smallest pharmaceutical companies to bring an emergency birth-control method to market.

Β© Marty Katz for The New York Times

Sharon Camp in 2000. One of the many obstacles to bringing the morning-after pill to the United States, she said, was the pharmaceutical industry, which β€œdemonstrated the political instincts of celery.”
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