{"id":912,"date":"2011-12-05T18:50:26","date_gmt":"2011-12-05T23:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/?p=912"},"modified":"2011-12-05T18:59:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-05T23:59:57","slug":"bayer-corporation-are-bastards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/badcatholic\/2011\/12\/bayer-corporation-are-bastards.html","title":{"rendered":"Bayer Corporation Are Bastards"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

bastard<\/strong> [bas-terd]<\/span>
\n2.\u00a0Slang.
\na\u00a0vicious,\u00a0despicable,\u00a0or\u00a0thoroughly\u00a0disliked\u00a0person:
\nSome\u00a0bastard\u00a0slashed\u00a0the\u00a0tires\u00a0on\u00a0my\u00a0car.<\/p>\n

Those of you who follow me know I have some beef with the widespread use of oral contraceptives as the answer to all the world\u2019s problems. I\u2019m afraid I\u2019ve come up with another 10 Reasons the Pill Sucks<\/a>, may the Lord save the Internet. But before that blows up: As a result of some research for a final paper, I\u2019ve been happily exposed to one of the most evil big-businesses in the universe: Bayer Corporation.\"\"<\/p>\n

They are the leaders in the development of third-generation oral contraceptives, with their now infamous birth-control pills Yaz and Yasmin. For those who need a brief history lesson, first-generation pills killed people, second-generation aren\u2019t effective enough, have masculinizing effects on women and also killed people, so now we\u2019re on third-generation of oral contraceptives, pills that utilize artificial hormones such as\u00a0drospirenone,\u00a0desogestrel (DSG), gestodine, and norgestimate acetate (NORGac) to prevent ovulation.<\/p>\n

The problem being, well, that they kill people. (Thus fourth-generation pills are now being developed in the labs. And so it goes\u2026) A 2001 study of all available data entitled \u201cThird generation oral contraceptives and risk of venous thrombosis: Meta-analysis\u201d, has shown third-generation oral contraceptives to double the risk of blood clotting of second-generation pills. In 2007 t<\/em>he activist group Public Citizen \u2014 not exactly of a conservative or Christian bent, mind you<\/a> \u2014 released a petition<\/a> for the FDA to remove the pills entirely from the American market, demanding that they \u201cimmediately ban the third generation oral contraceptives containing desogestrel due to the approximately doubled risk of venous thrombosis (30 cases for every 100,000 users per year of third generation oral contraceptives compared to 15 cases for every 100,000 users of second generation oral contraceptives) and lack of evidence of clinical benefit as compared to the second generation oral contraceptives\u201d Third generation pills also include\u00a0Cyclessa,\u00a0Desogen,\u00a0Kariva,\u00a0Mircette,\u00a0Ortho-Cept, Reclipsen, and\u00a0Velivet.<\/p>\n

But Bayer Corporation \u2014 like all most companies \u2014 are concerned with profits, not women\u2019s health. They released an ad campaign \u2014 you know the type; full of beautiful, hip young women specifically not<\/em> having heart attacks \u2014 that promoted non-FDA approved benefits of Yaz, such as the reduction of acne and the control of PMS. Like this one:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=vr8vT-ic4zg<\/a>\n

Thus it came to pass<\/a> that an 18 year old girl, prescribed Yaz for her acne, \u201ccollapsed on September 24, 2010 while she was making her way to her first class of the morning at North Carolina\u2019s Elon University,\u201d and died of a blood clot in her lungs. I tell the story before the numbers, so you\u2019ll some idea of the pain to magnify. There are over 7,000 individual lawsuits against the company, and during only a four year period between 2004 and 2008, the FDA received more than 50 reports of death of women who were taking Yaz or Yasmin.<\/p>\n

Bayer Corporation was required by the State of California to release a 20 million dollar ad campaign correcting their greedy negligence, as well as to \u201ccease any and all claims about the drug that are not FDA-approved\u201d. Being bastards, this is one of the \u201cads\u201d they\u00a0released:<\/p>\nhttp:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=xv4ccGSGar4<\/a>\n

Apparently it was supposed to be funny.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s a freaky world, oral contraceptive production. Of course, I\u2019d beg any women on third-generation pills for trivial reasons\u00a0to consider other options<\/a>, but that\u2019s not really my goal here. My goal is simply to raise the question, what if oral contraceptives aren\u2019t the world\u2019s greatest gift to women? What if Pill providers do not have your best interests in mind? Thankfully, this information is now contained in the packaging of all FDA approved third-generation oral contraceptives: \u201cCase control studies have found the relative risk of users compared to non-users to be 3 for the first episode of superficial venous thrombosis, 4 to 11 for deep vein thrombosis or pulmonary embolism.\u201d May our understanding increase, along with a respect for our bodies.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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