they were pitching it in magazines aimed at young teen girls as having anti-acne skin clearing qualities
The FDA came down on them and now you see them advertising the warnings.
You need a prescription to get this stuff so your doctor should have known the risks anyway and advised you before you took it, especially if you told them it was for acne. If there were people who actually suffered from a complete misunderstanding of it I would be interested to know how many, but I will guarantee far fewer than the lawyers will dig up. the original ads did talk about it not protecting against HIV, and it was advertised as a birth control method, so this whole thing is hogwash imho.
Why are American teens and women willing to be human guinea pigs for a population control industry?