S1 Ep6: The Contraceptive (Dalkon Shield)
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4.6 • 10.3K Ratings
🗓️ 18 February 2018
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
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.
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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? |
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| 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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