Birth Control

Women are being denied informed consent about the serious harms associated with different forms of birth control.

Studies have linked birth control with a number of serious adverse effects including inreased risk of: blood clots, strokes, brain cancer, breast cancer, depression, mood swings, negative stress response, suicide, altered fear perception, altered mate selection, and sexual dysfunction.

Doctors routinely downplay and ignore these adverse effects as they are reported by women and gaslight patients, leading many women to suffer for years without getting proper treatment.

Many forms of birth control were considered “safe” by the FDA while thousands of woman reported complaints that were ignored, and covered up, until class action lawsuits forced healthcare authorities to acknowledge that the suffering of patients was real.

Complications include IUD’s breaking apart and becoming lost inside the body, perforating organs, causing internal hemorrhaging, and resulting in patients having to get hysterectomies. Often this excruciating pain is ignored by doctors for years, who deny the health conditions are linked to the birth control.

Young girls are being encouraged to get on birth control at an early age, even if they are not sexually active, and without any proper warning about any of the serious harms that are widely known. Teenage girls are being provided birth control over the counter, and also in school, where students are implanted with IUDs without the consent, or even the knowledge, of the parents.

Adverse Effects

• 14 Ways Birth Control Pills Rob Us of Our Health – Dr. Izabella Wentz
• 20 Birth Control Side Effects Every Woman Should Know – Glamour
• Birth Control Side Effects: Risks and Long-Term Safety of the Pill – Healthline
• The Effects of Hormonal Birth Control on Your Body – Healthline

Blood Clots / Thrombosis / Thromboembolism

• Birth Control Methods and the Risk of Blood Clots – WebMD
• Contraception blood-clot risk- ‘public need better access to advice’ – The Guardian
• People Are Sharing How Birth Control Caused Them To Develop Blood Clots In Their Brain — Here’s What Experts Say About The Risks Of Birth Control – Buzzfeed
• What to know about birth control and blood clots – Medical News Today
• What Are The Links Between Hormonal Birth Control & Blood Clots? – Forbes
• You are more likely to get a blood clot on birth-control pills than from the J&J vaccine — but not the same type of clot – Business Insider

Stroke Risk

• A 15-year-old girl had a stroke linked to birth control and was in a coma for 27 days. Doctors thought she’d overdosed on drugs. – Business Insider
• ‘My contraceptive pill nearly killed me’: Woman’s warning after suffering stroke – The Independent
• Stroke Risk Is Greater For Migraine Sufferers, Especially Those On Oral Contraceptives – ScienceDaily
• What to know about birth control and blood clot risk after 2 women taking the pill died in the same month – Business Insider
• Woman Almost Dies After She Claims Birth Control Caused Stroke – Newsweek
• Woman says she had stroke in her 20s while on birth control – ABC News

Brain Cancer

• Birth Control Risks May Include Brain Cancer – TIME
• Birth control pill may be linked to rare brain tumors – CBS News
• The Patch, The Pill, And Other Hormonal Contraceptives Linked To A Rare Brain Tumor – Medical Daily

Breast Cancer

• All hormonal contraceptives ‘carry small increased risk of breast cancer’ – The Guardian
• All Types of Hormonal Birth Control Share a Slightly Increased Risk of Breast Cancer, Study Says – TIME
• Birth control methods that use one hormone raise breast cancer risk as much as those with a combo, study finds – NBC News
• Birth Control Pills Still Linked to Breast Cancer, Study Finds – The New York Times
• Hormonal birth control raises breast cancer risk slightly- study – Fox News
• Progestin-only birth control slightly increases breast cancer risk – The Washington Post
• Understudied Hormonal Birth Control Pill Linked to Cancer — But It’s Complicated – Inverse

Depression

• Being on the pill puts you at greater risk of depression, study finds – ABC Australia
• Birth Control Linked to Depression, Especially Among Teen Girls – National Catholic Register
• Birth Control Linked To Depression, New Study Says – CBS Philadelphia
• Birth control linked to depression, new study says – CNN
• Birth control pills may increase the risk of depression – Medical News Today
• Can hormonal birth control trigger depression? – Harvard Health
• Does the contraceptive pill cause depression? – BBC
• ‘It’s not in your head’: Striking new study links birth control to depression – The Washington Post
• Large Danish Study Links Contraceptive Use To Risk Of Depression – KFF Health News
• New study links contraceptive pills and depression – ScienceDaily
• The Link Between Contraceptive Pills and Depression – Neuroscience News
• The pill and other hormonal contraception linked to depression: A case for informed consent – Facts About Fertility
• The pill is linked to depression – and doctors can no longer ignore it – The Guardian
• Women taking pill more likely to be treated for depression, study finds – The Guardian
• Women’s birth control linked to greater chance of depression: study – Globalnews.ca
• Women’s use of contraceptive pills linked to greater risk of depression – News Medical Life Sciences

Teen Use Linked to Depression as Adults

• Health alert for women: Early use of birth control pills linked to higher rates of depression, study finds – Fox News
• Teen birth control use linked to higher depression risk as an adult, says new research – CBC News
• Teen birth control use linked to depression risk in adulthood – Department of Psychology University of British Columbia

Postpartum Depression

• Could Reaction to Hormonal Birth Control Predict Postpartum Depression? – Neuroscience News
• Depression After Hormonal Contraception Initiation Linked to PPD – Psychiatric News
• Is hormonal birth control affecting your mental health? Understanding link with postpartum depression – Sports Keeda
• Is Postpartum Depression More Common in Women with Sensitivity to Hormonal Contraceptive? – MGH Center for Women’s Mental Health
• Use of hormonal birth control linked to greater risk of postpartum depression in women – News Medical Life Sciences

Postpartum Psychosis / Postpartum Suicide

• What is postpartum psychosis? What may be behind the Lindsay Clancy tragedy – New York Post
• Mom experiencing postpartum depression dies by suicide days after giving birth – GMA – YouTube

Mood Swings

• Are You An Emotional Mess? It Could Be Your Birth Control Pills – The Dempster Clinic – Center for Functional Medicine

Stress Response

• Birth-control pills affect the body’s ability to regulate stress, study suggests – ScienceDaily
• Study shows how birth control pills affect women’s psychological and biological responses to stress – Psychiatry – UCLA Health

Suicide

• Does Hormonal Contraception Raise Suicide Risk? – Psychology Today

Sexual Dysfunction

• Is your birth control messing with your sex life? Experts explain – CNN

Altered Mate Selection

• Birth Control Pills Affect Women’s Taste in Men – Scientific American
• Birth Control Pills Might Alter Mate Selection: Study – ABC News
• Pill affects mate choice: study – CBC News
• The Pill Makes Women Pick Bad Mates – Live Science
• Unnatural Selection: Birth Control Pills May Alter Choice Of Partners – ScienceDaily

Fear Perception

• Birth control pills may alter how women perceive fear. Here’s how – Globalnews.ca
• Oral birth control could impact fear response in the brain: study – CTV News

Doctors Don’t Acknowledge Adverse Effects and Gaslight Patients

• Patients, doctors are clashing about side effects of hormonal birth control – STAT

Different Types of Birth Control are More Dangerous

• Are Some Birth Control Pills Too Risky? – National Center for Health Research

Depo-Provera

• Class action suit against Pfizer Canada moves forward – CTV News
• Coming off Depo-Provera can be a woman’s worst nightmare – Society for Menstrual Cycle Research
• Depo-Provera: Deadly Violence Against Black Women – Black is Back Coalition
• FDA reveals birth control Depo-Provera has long-term side effects – collegiatetimes.com
• “I Wouldn’t Recommend It to Anyone”: What We Can Learn from Women who have had Bad Experiences with Depo-Provera – Our Bodies Ourselves
• If You Took Depo-Provera — Make Your Claim for Compensation from Pfizer before March of 2022 – Medium
• New study reveals Depo-Provera could be more hazardous to women than previously known – Live Action
• Settlement Agreement Reached in the Canadian Depo-Provera Class Action – Cision Newswire
• The Case Against Depo-Provera – Multinational Monitor
• This Contraceptive Is Linked to a Higher Risk of HIV – TIME
• Women Struggle to Quit Depo-Provera – ABC News

Warning

• DEPO-PROVERA- medroxyprogesterone acetate injection, suspension  Pharmacia & Upjohn Company LLC  – PDF

Book

• THE DANGERS OF DEPO – Traci Johnstone – Amazon.com

FDA Approved 1973

• F.D.A. Will Approve Controversial Injectable Contraceptive Drug for Restricted Use by Prescription – The New York Times

Rebranded 2005

• COMPANY NEWS; PFIZER WINS APPROVAL FOR NEW FORM OF DEPO-PROVERA – The New York Times

Drospirenone – “Yaz”

• Birth Control Pills with Drospirenone Linked to Blood Clot Injuries – Top Class Actions
• New Studies Find Yaz More Risky Than Other Leading Birth Control Pills- ABC News Investigates – ABC News
• Suits Claim Bayer’s Yaz Caused 50 Deaths; Novel Theory of Blood Clot Causation – CBS News

Essure – Implant

Essure Lawsuit

• Bayer sued over Essure contraceptive that allegedly caused nickel poisoning. Australian women launch class action over device after reports of perforations and chronic pain – The Guardian
• Essure Class Action – Slater and Gordon
• Essure IUD- Health Canada reviewing safety of birth control implant as women join class-action lawsuit – Globalnews.ca
• Essure Permanent Birth Control Class Action – Merchant Law Group LLP
• More than 1,000 Australian women commence class action against Bayer – Women’s Agenda
• Women in Canada turn to courts in fight for compensation over birth control implant complications – CBC News

Settlement

• Bayer Announces Resolution of U.S. Essure™ Claims – Business Wire
• Bayer Announces Settlement Signaling The End for Essure Lawsuits – Consumer Safety

FDA Knew for Years that Essure was Causing Harm to Patients

FDA “Restricts”

• FDA restricts sales of Essure birth control devices – YouTube
• FDA tightens restrictions on Essure birth control device – CNN

FDA Adds Black Box Warning

• FDA approves labeling changes for Essure – YouTube
• FDA takes additional action to better understand safety of Essure, inform patients of potential risks – FDA
• I-Team- FDA Issues ‘Black Box’ Warning On Birth Control Implant Essure – YouTube
• Problems Reported with Essure – FDA
• The FDA Now Requires A Black Box Warning For Essure Birth Control—Here’s What That Means – SELF

Essure Investigative Reports

Jaydess – IUD

Mirena – IUD

• 13 Mirena IUD Side Effects To Know, According To Doctors – Women’s Health
• Hundreds of women claim their IUD gave them a neurological disorder – Daily Mail Online
• ‘Mirena baby’ photographed clutching his mother’s IUD after birth – Globalnews.ca

Mirena Lawsuits

• Bayer Mirena Contraceptive User Advances Consumer Fraud Claims – Bloomberg Law
• Bayer Mostly Avoids Lawsuit Over Mirena IUD Cancer Risk, For Now – Bloomberg Law
• Judge rules against some 1,300 lawsuits over Bayer’s Mirena IUD – Fox News
• Mirena IUD Lawsuit Update February 2024 – Forbes Advisor
• Mirena IUD Users File Lawsuit Alleging Dangerous Side Effects – Top Class Actions
• Popular contraceptive device Mirena target of lawsuits in Canada, U.S. – CTV News
• Young Woman Suffers Infertility from Mirena IUD – Top Class Actions

Nexplanon – Implant

• FDA warns Nexplanon birth control users about ‘migration’ and ‘fragments,’ with contact sports a risk – Pittsburgh Post-Gazet
• Nexplanon Birth Control Implant Lawsuit (2024 Feb Upd.) – Schmidt & Clark

ParaGard – IUD

• Broken birth control: Growing calls for research into popular IUD after 6,000+ breakage reports – WPEC
• Exclusive: 3,000+ women report a popular IUD broke in their body, causing complications – KRCR
• Fort Walton Beach woman says broken Paragard IUD is stuck inside her – WPMI
• I-Team investigates after thousands of women file lawsuit against IUD maker – WPEC
• Paragard IUDs break apart, cause infection, infertility: suit – New York Post
• Rising concerns over popular IUD breaking inside users: New details tonight on Fox 25 News – KOKH

ParaGard – Lawsuits

• Lawsuits By Missouri Women Claim IUD Broke During Removal – KCUR
• Paragard IUD Lawsuits Claim Devices Can Break, Perforate Organs – Drug Watch
• Paragard IUD Lawsuit- Paragard Injuries & Lawsuit Updates – Drug Watch
• Paragard Lawsuit Update February 2024 – Forbes Advisor
• UNITED STATES JUDICIAL PANEL on MULTIDISTRICT LITIGATION IN RE: PARAGARD IUD PRODUCTS – PDF

Website

• Copper Paragard IUD Support Group – Facebook

IUDs

• A new study says some IUDs can affect breast tissue — challenging a myth that the birth control devices only work locally – Business Insider
• Breast MRI Shows IUDs Have Systemic Effects – Imaging Technology News
• IUDs appear to have systemic effects on the body, breast MRI study shows – News Medical Life Sciences
• Study suggests IUD can affect hormones beyond uterus – UPI
• Women have sucked up the pain of birth control devices for decades, but do they have to? – CBC Radio

IUDs Lost Inside Body

• A Baltimore mother survives near death experience after IUD breaks into pieces – WBFF
• A Woman Says Her Toes Rotted Off After Rare IUD Complications – Business Insider
• EMPOWERING: Mom Loses Ovaries, Toes, Uterus After IUD Ends Up In Stomach – The Daily Wire
• Mom loses ovaries, uterus and toes after IUD ends up in stomach – Fox News
• My Toes Rotted Off After I Got My IUD. And I lost my uterus and my ovaries, too. Here’s my rare but true horror story. – Cosmopolitan

Teens Encouraged to Get IUDs by Mainstream Media

• IUDs, implants are best birth control methods for teenage girls, doctors group says – Globalnews.ca
• IUDs, implants urged for U.S. teen birth control – CBC News

Teens Given Birth Control Implants at School Without Parent’s Permission

• Baltimore teen given birth control implant at school without parent’s permission – ABC 15
• Contraceptive implants are secretly given to girls aged 13. SCHOOLGIRLS as young as 13 have been fitted with contraceptive implants without their parents’ consent. – UK – Express.co.uk
• Girls, 13, given ‘secret’ contraceptive implants – The Telegraph
• Girls as young as TEN are being given the contraceptive implant – sparking fears it puts them at risk of ‘horrendous abuse’ – Daily Mail Online
• ‘I was furious’- Teen given birth control implant at school without parent’s permission – Fox 8 Cleveland WJW
• Seattle 6th Graders Can’t Get a Coke at School, But Can Get an IUD – CNSNews
• Seattle high school sparks outrage over policy which allows it to give IUD contraceptives to girls as young as ELEVEN – without seeking permission from parents  – Daily Mail Online
• Teen given birth control implant at school without parent’s permission – TMJ 4 Milwaukee
• Teen given birth control implant at school without parent’s permission – WMAR 2
• Teen given botched birth control implant at school without parents’ permission, mother says – FOX 5 DC
• Teenage Girls Secretly Given Contraceptive Implants and Injections in U.K. Schools – The New American
• Thirteen-Year-Old Girl Has ‘Secret’ Contraceptive Implant – Let’s Talk Underage Sex – HuffPost UK

Academic Papers

Altered Preference in Mates

• Does the contraceptive pill alter mate choice in humans? – Trends in Ecology & Evolution

Bone Mineral Density

• Hormonal Contraception and Bone Health in Adolescents – PMC

Brain Effects

• The Effects of Hormonal Contraceptives on the Brain: A Systematic Review of Neuroimaging Studies – Frontiers

Brain Effects – Fear Perception

• Morphologic alterations of the fear circuitry: the role of sex hormones and oral contraceptives – Frontiers

Brain Cancer

• Hormonal contraceptive use and risk of glioma among younger women- a nationwide case-control study – British Journal of Clinical Pharmacology – Sci-hub

Breast Cancer

• Breast cancer and hormonal contraceptives: collaborative reanalysis of individual data on 53 297 women with breast cancer and 100 239 women without breast cancer from 54 epidemiological studies – The Lancet

• Combined and progestagen-only hormonal contraceptives and breast cancer risk- A UK nested case–control study and meta-analysi – PLOS Medicine

• Contemporary Hormonal Contraception and the Risk of Breast Cancer – NEJM

• Oral Contraceptive Use as a Risk Factor for Premenopausal Breast Cancer: A Meta-analysis – Mayo Clinic Proceedings

Decline in Wellbeing

• A first-choice combined oral contraceptive influences general well-being in healthy women: a double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial – Fertility and Sterility – ASRM

Depression

• Association of Hormonal Contraception With Depression – Adolescent Medicine – JAMA Psychiatry – JAMA Network

• Population-based cohort study of oral contraceptive use and risk of depression – Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences – Cambridge University Press

Depression – Teen Use Linked to Depression as Adults

• Oral contraceptive use in adolescence predicts lasting vulnerability to depression in adulthood – ACAMH – 2020 – Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry – Sci-Hub.se

Depression – Postpartum Depression

• Depression Associated With Hormonal Contraceptive Use as a Risk Indicator for Postpartum Depression – JAMA Psychiatry

Depression – Postpartum Psychosis

• Hormonal and immunological factors in postpartum psychosis – Biomarkers of Postpartum Psychiatric Disorders – Sci-Hub.se

Sexual Dysfunction

• Oral Contraception and Female Sexual Dysfunction in Reproductive Women – ScienceDirect

Stress Response

• Adrenocorticotropic hormone secretion in response to anticipatory stress and venepuncture: The role of menstrual phase and oral contraceptive use – Science Direct

Suicide

• Association of Hormonal Contraception With Suicide Attempts and Suicides – American Journal of Psychiatry

• Is the Use of Hormonal Contraception Associated With Suicide and Suicide Attempts? – AAFP

Thrombosis – Thromboembolism

• Estrogen and Thrombosis: a Bench to Bedside Review – PMC
• Hormonal contraception, thrombosis and age – Taylor Francis Online – Sci-Hub.se
• Oral contraceptives and venous thromboembolism – The Lancet
• Use of combined oral contraceptives and risk of venous thromboembolism- nested case-control studies using the QResearch and CPRD databases – BMJ

Medication Counterinteractions

• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and risk of venous thromboembolism- a systematic review and meta-analysis – Rheumatology – Oxford Academic

Stroke

• Oral Contraceptives and Ischemic Stroke Risk – Stroke – AHA Journals

IUD Regret

• Regret in the modern contraceptive landscape: Evaluating regret in patients undergoing tubal ligation or bilateral salpingectomy for contraception – JOGC

Depo-Provera

• Depot Medroxyprogesterone Acetate Use and Blood Lead Levels in a Cohort of Young Women – Environmental Health Perspectives
• The Grady Hospital Study: The Corruption of Contraceptive Research – Contraceptive Risk- The FDA, Depo-Provera, and the Politics of Experimental Medicine – Oxford Academic
• A FLAWED SOLUTION TO THE SEX OFFENDER SITUATION IN THE UNITED STATES: THE LEGALITY OF CHEMICAL CASTRATION FOR SEX OFFENDERS – PDF

Drospirenone – “Yaz” – Blood Clots

• Higher risk of venous thrombosis associated with drospirenone-containing oral contraceptives- a population-based cohort study – Canadian Medical Association Journal

History

• Birth control, population control, and family planning: an overview – Sci-Hub.se