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I'd like to take a moment to say their names.

Lauren Alexander. to say their names.

Lauren Alexander, Devon Bell, Erica Langhart, Brittany Malone.

Lauren died at 20 of a pulmonary embolism after taking a generic version of Yas.

Devon survived multiple blood clots on her lungs.

Erica, a 24-year-old on Nuevary died had two heart attacks and Brittany died of a blood

clot-related complication from the Nuverring. These were women in their 20s,

fit and healthy, they did not have clotting disorders, they didn't smoke, nor did they

have the typical risk factors of women for whom there are precautions about taking the

pill or using hormonal contraception.

But even had they been, chances are they not have been informed not to take it.

Their doctors might not have even noticed the contraindications.

The advent of the birth control pill was hard one for women. In fact, it wasn't even

legal for unmarried women to obtain it until the early 70s. Ditto that for a credit card.

And it's considered one of the greatest reasons for beneficial

economic shifts for women in the U.S. Yet the pill has a checkered past from testing on uninformed

women in Boston in the 1950s and 60s to testing from testing on

on poor women in Boston in the 1950s and 60s to testing on poor women in Puerto Rico,

cover-ups about severe and even fatal pill side effects dating back to the 1960s,

and even its development in conjunction with the eugenics movement

that sought to create white racial purity in this country that along with forced sterilization

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