The pill is touted as safe? By whom? You may not know this, being a guy, but when a woman goes in to get a prescription for oral contraceptives she is presented with a list of side effects and contraindications as long as your arm. The pill containers come with lots of small print detailing the horrible things that can happen and warning you not to take it if you have any of the listed contraindications. There is no way you could walk away with those pills and not realize there is risk involved.
Something being touted as safe does not preclude the actual existence of risks. The two are not mutually exclusive.