The Pill Plot | 6. Hush-Hush

The Conspiracy Tapes

Sony Music

True Crime, History, Society & Culture, Documentary

4 • 1.4K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Summary

The pros at the Population Council try to take over, with patent rights finally coming in from Europe, but Larry won’t be sidelined that easily. We hear from women who have taken the pill—something that hasn’t really happened before—and then some drama involving the developers and a corrupt land deal stalls things badly. After years of delays, as the 2000 presidential election nears, FDA approval might finally be at hand. Unlock all episodes of Cover Up: The Pill Plot, ad-free, right now by subscribing to The Binge. Plus, get binge access to brand new stories dropping on the first of every month — that’s all episodes, all at once, all ad-free. Just click ‘Subscribe’ on the top of the Cover Up: The Pill Plot show page on Apple Podcasts or visit GetTheBinge.com to get access wherever you get your podcasts. A Sony Music Entertainment production. Find out more about The Binge and other podcasts from Sony Music Entertainment at sonymusic.com/podcasts and follow us @sonypodcasts. You can follow the show’s host on Twitter @TJRaphael Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	The Bench.
0:06.0	Previously, on cover up the pill plot.
0:09.0	Do everything.
0:11.0	Because you never know which tactic is going to be the breakthrough.
0:14.8	We were afraid that, you know, the lab would get blown up.
0:17.6	We brought with us 115,000 petitions that individual people had signed saying allow
0:24.1	RE 46 to come to our country. What was the problem? I wanted to just keep it quiet.
0:29.2	That's the only thing I wanted to do is just keep it quiet.
0:31.8	Remember the FDA like the bureaucracy of the federal government in general is you don't turn it on a dime. On May 16th, 1994, Ella,
0:45.0	L'E Smiel, Larry's ally at the Feminist Majority Foundation,
0:52.1	is called to Capitol Hill.
0:54.1	She's told it's related to RU486,
0:56.7	but not much else.
0:59.0	Ellie heads there with her colleague, Jennifer Jackman.
1:02.2	As I remember, they did not provide a lot of details
1:04.7	on what was going to happen there.
1:06.2	We weren't really allowed to tell anybody where we were going.
1:12.1	Ellie and Jennifer enter the capital and head to a secret meeting location.
1:16.0	It's a room set up for a modest press conference.
1:20.0	Health and Human Services Donna Shalala is there.
1:23.6	And one other key person who's about to speak.
1:27.5	Everyone has been summoned to hear what he's going to say.
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