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Women have another reason to celebrate: Sunday is the 50th anniversary of the birth control pill. Since its creation in May of 1960, the drug has had its share of controversy.

Many have attributed the sexual revolution of the '60s to the pill, but TIME magazine reveals that this may not be so. Editor-at-large of the magazine tells MSNBC why.

 "I went into this thinking... 1960 the FDA approves the pill and the next thing you know you've got sex and the single girl and the summer of love and make love not war and the whole great bacchanal of the 1960s that the pill somehow unleashed but that's actually not true. It's kind of a logical fallacy that because two things arrived at the same time one caused the other...and all through the '60s you had to be married to get the pill even planned parenthood clinics would not give it to single women."

When it was first marketed the drug companies wanted to ease women into thinking that the pill was a simple part of their nightly routines. CBS's Cynthia Bowers says that it worked.

"The drug companies tried to make the pill seem mundane, using starter kits like this one. 'Brush your teeth, wash your face, take the pill...and it completely separates birth control from sex.' It worked. Sales jumped from just 400,000 women in 1961 to six-and-a-half million four years later. Nearly 12 million women take it today."

Some in the media say the pill helped revolutionize the role of women in society. ABC's Harry Smith explains the statistics behind the change.

"The pill promised to free women from biological bonds, and it did just that. In the 1950s women made up about one third of the work force, today women hold about half of all U.S. jobs. In the 1950s, American women had on average about 3.8 children. Today that number has dropped to 2.1."

But the dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Rutgers-Camden University told Rutgers Today that the pill as well as pregnancy technology have more to revolutionize.

"In the last 100 years we have been gradually separating sex from reproduction. All of these technological advances enlarges the question of what it means to be a family. It allows a variety of couples, including same-sex couples, to have biological children. A hundred years from now, we won't think it's a big deal."