How about a shotgun and a shovel? =)
Posted on 11/26/2005 5:56:51 PM PST by Coleus
When the parents of 14 year-old Alycia Brown of La Crosse Wisconsin found out their daughter was sexually active, they did what the modern culture told them was the right thing to do; they put her on birth control, choosing the popular hormonal patch instead of the Pill. When on May 7, 2004, Alycia died suddenly of blood clots in her lower pelvis Michael and Lorie Brown decided to sue the deadly drug's manufacturer in the hopes of having it taken off the market.
The patch, which releases a dose of contraceptive hormones into a woman's blood stream through the skin, has been responsible for at least 17 deaths in women age 17 to 30 since its release in 2002, according to the US Food and Drug Administration.
In September 2004, a study by the FDA revealed 21 "life-threatening" conditions related to the patch such as blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks. The Browns' lawsuit claims the company intentionally withheld information from its own clinical trials and Food and Drug Administration records suggesting the increased risks.
Thus far, Alycia is the youngest of the patch's victims. Her mother told the La Crosse Tribune that the suit is only partly about collecting damages. "More than anything, I want it taken off the market," she said.
"Maybe I'll be able to save a life, if people know what happened to her."
Earlier this month, Ortho-McNeil agreed to improve the warnings on the labels for the patch to include the information that it had possible fatal side effects. The company admitted that the patch exposes women to about 60 percent more estrogen than those using typical birth-control pills.
Read Previous LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
Ortho McNeil Corp Admits Birth Control Patch Blood Clot Connection
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/nov/05111404.html
Contact the FDA to request that the drug be taken off the market:
U. S. Food and Drug Administration
5600 Fishers Lane,
Rockville MD 20857-0001
1-888-INFO-FDA
(1-888-463-6332)
and your elected officials www.congress.org
*shaking head so many times, I'm getting dizzy*
How about a shotgun and a shovel? =)
I always thought chains in the basement would work better than just locked in their rooms. Unfortunately, there are laws against that....
Or perhaps, fortunately........
NSAIDs include aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, ketoprofen, and tiaprofenic acid.
It happens.
12 gauge with ought buckshot, backed up by a full clip of 9mm hollow points. :-)
http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/127/6/429
Surely you jest. What GOOD point comes from "planned parenthood", and the likes of Margaret Sanger????????
An alarming number of parents do just that every day. They are so busy with their own lives and conspicuous consumption ... and so intent upon being their children's "best friends" ... that they have completely abrogated their parental responsibilities. Many have seldom, if ever, said NO to their children ... even when it comes to life altering behaviour, such as sex, before the child is mature enough to know what it is doing.
Our society and culture are permeated through and through with blatant sex ... in dialogue and action on every tv program ... in the lurid books people read ... and it is taught in school from early grades. [Wake up, folks, "Heather Has Two Mommies", taught in kindergarten, is all about SEX!]
Sex has become nearly inescapable .... These parents probably convinced themselves that they were acting responsibly ... but all they accomplished was to kill their own child. The drug companies do not force people to use their products.
Actually, it's me, too. Stupid parents. Would it have been worse if their daughter would have contracted an incurable sexually transmitted disease and that might have killed her? What were they thinking??? Oh well...at least she wouldn't have gotten pregnant.
I don't feel a need to defend them. I have always felt that they were a place the girls could go for information when their parents were too uptight to talk to them.
LeCross Birth Control
I see the commercial a lot when I am on the treadmill in the afternoon, which is telling of who the drug company is targeting during this time. They talk about the risk and how they are increased for certain women, by certain activities. They talk about how they don't prevent std's and how they are meant for women in committed relationships. The doctor that suggested/prescribed this as the method of choice doesn't appear to have followed the criteria from the commercial.
Why do I get the feeling that all the modern sexual "rules" are being written by adolescent boys? Is it the boys putting all the pressure on these young girls to be little whores?
Dads and the media need to start teaching their boys to be gentlemen AND their girls (and boys) to be chaste.
Cheers, sweetie!
None that I am aware of but that isn't the point.
How can blood clots in her lower pelvis 'suddenly' kill her.
The news reports are usually scrambled, but most likely she died of a pulmonary embolism...blood clot, risk of which increases from birth control pills, went to lungs.
Of course, one can die of this from sitting too long in an airplane. Risk of death from pregnancy is not insignificant. Risk of developing breast cancer from later childbirth/nursin is greater. Birth control pills are sometimes prescribed, not for contraception, but for heavy periods, etc. That's life, a series of risk/benefit alternatives. Unfortunately, trial lawyers and ignorant people have figured out how to demonize choice/risk and make a buck from it...
Wow. I was thinking more of a .410 with rock salt, but I like your dedication. =)
This really stinks. Parents know shes having sex @ 14 and the only idea they have is birth control?
FYATHYRIO
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