Reproductive health in the U.S. has never been short of drama. Now a new event series will tell the story of the capsule that’s changed the lives and bedrooms of millions nationally and worldwide — oral contraceptives.

Sonar Entertainment has optioned the rights to Jonathan Eig’s 2014 award-winning nonfiction book “The Birth of the Pill: How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution” for development.

According to Deadline, the project “revolves around four flawed, rebellious, larger than life characters racing against time, politics, and ethics.” The cast of characters includes “feminist and social reformer Margaret Sanger, who opened the first birth control clinic in the United States; philanthropist and suffragist Katharine McCormick, who used her family fortune to fund the research that led to the development of the pill; visionary biologist and researcher Gregory Goodwin Pincus, co-inventor of the first oral contraceptive; and John Rock, the Catholic obstetrician and gynecologist who fought to win public approval for the new drug.”

Audrey Wells (“Under the Tuscan Sun”) will pen the first episode and executive produce. Denise DiNovi, Alison Greenspan, and R.J. Cutler will also EP. The latter will direct. The trio previously worked together on the 2014 romance “If I Stay.”

“The incredibly complex real life characters who, from vastly different directions, worked together to change the course of sexual, cultural, and political history will be shocking and surprising,” commented DiNovi. “The world would not have been the same without The Pill.”

Tom Patricia of Sonar Entertainment added, “This vivid history of the little pill that changed the world is as engaging and gripping as the most suspenseful and dramatic work of fiction. An epic story of sexual politics, rebellion, and scientific discovery, it is as relevant and timely today as it was when the actual events were unfolding.”