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The May 25–June 7, 1979, issue of New Women’s Times reported that the British Pill Victim Action group was planning to sue American drug companies for damages running into millions of dollars. The group had on file more than 300 cases alleging the pill to be responsible for incidences of brain hemorrhage, paralysis, and death. Alongside that item was another one about a trial opening in Sweden, the first of an expected 100 cases involving pill-induced deaths and injuries. The mounting evidence in the last decade about the dangers of the contraceptive pill, and the inadequate information furnished to users about hazards, have sparked a legal and political attack on irresponsible contraceptive advocacy, an attack of historically unprecedented proportions.
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Berkman, J.A. (1980). Historical Styles of Contraceptive Advocacy. In: Holmes, H.B., Hoskins, B.B., Gross, M. (eds) Birth Control and Controlling Birth. Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-6005-9_3
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