After successful tests of this product in Haiti and Puerto Rico, it was sold under the brand name, Enovid-10.  
A future key ingredient in this product was made much cheaper when Russell Marker figured out how to extract that ingredient from a type of Mexican yam.  Hudson Hoagland and M. C. Chang tested this product on rats and rabbits.  Work on it was done in a converted old-ladies home loftily named the Worcester Foundation.  Before advocating for improved housing at MIT, Katharine McCormick provided two million dollars to develop this product.  The FDA's first ever advisory committee found that this thing was not harmful to humans, but in Britain it was sold with warnings about (*) blood clotting.  After successful tests of this product in Haiti and Puerto Rico, it was sold under the brand name, Enovid-10.  "Papa" Pincus developed this diminutive pink product, which combines two hormones and which was advocated for by Margaret Sanger.  For 10 points, name this taken-daily method for preventing pregnancy.
A future key ingredient in this product was made much cheaper when Russell Marker figured out how to extract that ingredient from a type of Mexican yam.  
birth control pill [or combined oral contraceptive pill; or COCP; prompt on contraceptive