Before the adoption of the Neuwirth law legalizing the pill (December 1967), a law of 1920 prohibited not only all contraception, but all information on contraceptives. When he presented his first bill on the legalization of the pill Lucien Neuwirth, a Gaullist deputy whom the press nicknamed "Lulu the Pill", chose the very day of his birthday (May 18, 1966) to show clearly that he respected the birth and life ...