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...early tests of Depo-Provera in animals. In a seven-year, controlled study using beagles, two out of 16 dogs developed breast cancer. Results from a ten-year study using 52 rhesus monkeys were equally alarming: two of the animals developed cancer of the endometrium (the lining of the uterus). Upjohn's own scientists concluded in 1978 that the cancer was "likely related to treatment with Depo-Provera." Later that year the FDA refused to allow Upjohn to market the drug as a contraceptive, though it is approved for treating certain diseases...
...without pausing to consider their wishes. She provides numerous examples of this abuse, adding, "Patients have no choice in what is done to them." In one case, a woman's fallopian tubes are tied (a form of sterilization) after she gives birth because her doctor suspects that her uterus is unfit for another pregnancy. He gets her permission while she is half-paralyzed by anesthesia. Another woman is dragooned into a hysterectomy by a gynecologist who refuses to discuss any other options and falsely assures her that "it's just a little operation. [After...
Resident: "We don't know. The guy that sent her in thought there might be, but we don't believe that unless we can find them ourselves. She's 42 and doesn't need a uterus...
...most Americans the idea of sterilization abuse conjures up images of Nazi Germany and Hitler's push for a pure race. Few Americans would believe that sterilization abuse continues in their public hospitals, as well as on Native American reservations. Fewer still would realize that hysterectomy (removal of the uterus and tubal ligation) is fast becoming the most frequently performed operation on this nation's women...
...Some doctors don't explain what is going on," Horner says. "Doctors don't use lingo: they don't talk the patient's language. A woman will ask a doctor if she has her uterus out, can she have children. Harvard (which used to be affiliated with Boston City Hospital) has not been able to communicate to poor people, like using the word 'womb' instead of 'uterus' to explain," she adds...