Dr Ruth Westheimer once worked for PPNYC in our Harlem clinic researching our patients’ contraceptive and abortion histories. She used the material for her doctoral dissertation. Her job done, her position was eliminated. As she repeatedly said to me, “That Al Moran (my predecessor as President of PPNYC) he fired me!” The world is glad he did because she went on to become Dr Ruth. And she never held it against me and eloquently presented me an award at the Pill is 50 celebration. It seems to me that I should have been presenting her an award. Dr. Ruth brought sex into American homes with expertise, forthrightness and humor. Her life story as a Holocaust survivor and as a sniper in Israel seemed to inure her to the brickbracks of the Puritans who thought her some deviant corruptor of American women and youth. She stood firm, all 4’7″ of her, for truth and honesty and fun and pleasure. We are all in her debt.