Well, that is my exact thought, so I never took them.
They used much higher levels of estrogen or something back in the 70’s. I heard this in the 90’s— but on the net and hardly ever in the MSM. They were also linking it with higher breast cancer levels. At the time all these women in Marin were coming down with breast cancer....like a hot spot....they were on the pill and they had higher number of abortions.....so it could have been a combo...either/or...or some other toxin....maybe the soy in tofu. Ha
If it ever was in Time or Newsweek it was on a little space in the back of the magazine. I do believe I saw it in one of those magazines but it got very little coverage.
Jim, I think the fact that you have no idea should remove you from the comments about birth control pills. I don’t think any drugs are “good” for us. Even aspirin is a serious drug and should not be taken so lightly but people pop aspirins, Tylenols, and other pain relievers like nobody’s business. Ditto for antacids and a host of other OTC meds.
The point is that people have the right to determine whether their quality of life can be improved drastically (or even lengthened)by drugs. I have a disease that totally incapacitated me. If you told me tomorrow that my life would be cut short b/c of that drug, it would be meaningless to me because without it, life was not really life at all.