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Swindled

06. The Contraceptive (Dalkon Shield)

Swindled

A Concerned Citizen

True Crime, History, Documentary, Society & Culture

4.79.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 February 2018

⏱️ 43 minutes

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A pharmaceutical company looks the other way as its promising new birth control product, the Dalkon Shield intrauterine device (IUD), endangers the lives of more than 2 million women around the world. Prelude: A pill scare sweeps the nation as a result of the Nelson Pill Hearings. –––-–---------------------------------------- PATREON: Patreon.com/Swindled DONATE: SwindledPodcast.com/Support CONSUME: SwindledPodcast.com/Shop –––-–---------------------------------------- FOLLOW: SwindledPodcast.com Instagram.com/SwindledPodcast Twitter.com/SwindledPodcast Facebook.com/SwindledPodcast Thanks for listening. :-) Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

The search is heating up for the people who make football better. People like Sally Butler.

0:05.0

It's really us about putting mums on the pitch where they belong.

0:09.0

Jimmy the Moa. It might only be a council feel next to the tip.

0:12.0

But around here it's Wembley.

0:14.0

Rachel O'Sullivan and Sophie Downing.

0:16.0

Bringing women's football to a wider audience.

0:19.0

Entries are rolling in. Who's your real football number one?

0:22.0

Nominate them today and they could win a money car buy experience with Skybet prize drop.

0:27.0

Skybet for UK's number one betting app.

0:33.0

One thing we can all agree on. No one wants another energy crisis.

0:37.0

But just talking about it won't make it go away.

0:39.0

Here's what we're actually doing at British Gas.

0:42.0

We're increasing the UK's gas storage so that we can help make energy prices more predictable for everyone.

0:48.0

And so the 8 million homes and businesses who rely on us for their energy today can rely on us tomorrow too.

0:55.0

That's enough talking. Let's get over to doing British Gas.

1:25.0

Instead of on our decaying crowded congested polluted urban areas that are in human traps for millions of people.

1:35.0

That's a democratic Senator Gayler Nelson giving a speech on April 22nd 1970, the very first Earth Day.

1:43.0

A holiday which he had founded to help spread awareness about environmental protection.

1:48.0

He's primarily remembered for his environmental efforts and his outspoken criticism of the Vietnam War.

1:54.0

But Gayler Nelson was a strong supporter of consumer and civil rights as well.

1:59.0

A few weeks before that speech, Senator Nelson had called for a congressional hearing to discuss the safety of oral contraceptives or the birth control pill,

2:09.0

which had been approved for sale to the general public by the Food and Drug Administration about a decade earlier.

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