Margaret Crane: Creator of the Home Pregnancy Test

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Margaret Crane says it was a simple idea, but it met with enormous push back

Crane told Bonhams, the auction house which in 2015 auctioned off her original prototype, that she got the idea when she saw several pregnancy tests in a lab she was visiting. “I thought how simple that was. A woman should be able to do that herself.”

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