I'm in the Amfield Rap Studio and I am joined by Maddie Lion from the Association for Children

Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests. The Association for Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy

Tests is one of the groups who've put their weight behind what's termed the Hillsborough

Law campaign around getting the quality of arms, a public advocate and the idea of a duty

of candor for everyone in public life. It's been an ongoing process, the Association

for Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests campaign, it's been going for many years

and Maddie's going to tell us the full story of what happened, the why of what happened,

what happened with the group, the fight for justice as it's war on and where it finds

itself now in the context of Hillsborough. Maddie a lot of this obviously is, it goes

back a long, long, long way and it's worth sort of framing that in the first place, this

is something that belongs starts, sorry, all the way back in the 1950s and 60s.

It certainly does, it started actually immediately after the thalidomide scandal and what I was

surprised about was that one of the three drugs that was mentioned in the trial for the thalidomide

people was a drug called Duganon, now Duganon is the German word for primordos and that was

quite a shock to find out that that had actually been referenced as causing harm before we

actually had it in the UK. It came to the UK about 1957 and in 1958 Dr Edwards wrote to

the committee on safety of medicines who were the regulators at that time to say I have a great

concern about this drug, primordos. Now primordos was two tablets that had 40 times the strength

for neural contraceptive and what was it meant to do primordos? It was meant as a hormone pregnancy

test, a neural hormone pregnancy test and he had actually raised concerns because he said

my feeling is that huge amount of synthetic hormones in early pregnancy it could affect the fetus

that warning was just suppressed so the regulator decided not to take any notice of it.

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