[krb]

I don't know if they have a case...all of those patch commercials spend half the content of the ad warning of the potential consequences, including blod clots and death.

They are scary ads, and I don't know why someone would risk that.

[Michael.SF.]

If she had just kept he legs Le Crosse(d)she would be alive today.

[Loud Mime]

The Wall Street Journal had an article about patches just this last week.

A sexually active 14 year old should get a cork with razor blades pointed outside.

[SeaDragon]

If there are possible "fatal" side effects, then it shouldn't be on the market at all.

[baa39]

It's right to blame drug company and the FDA for their irresponsibility, but this child was really put to death by her own parents, IMO.

[goldstategop]

Oh my. I have no sympathy for them whatsoever. Where was their responsibility to their own child BEFORE she became sexually active? Its not the drug company's responsibility to raise that child. The parents should have looked out for their daughter and this lawsuit is merely a childish attempt to divert attention away from their failure to exercise their parental responsibilities. Its an another instance of a society in which no one takes responsibility for anything. Sure you can argue the drug company is culpable but what about the parents? They are fare from innocent, aggrieved victims here. If they had done the right thing from Day One, their daughter would still be alive today.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[cynicom]

Sad death..Sad life prior...Much could be said but it would be pointless.

[Antoninus]

What an awful story. Just goes to show--anything that messes with the chemical make-up of the human body in such a fundamental way is bound to have bad side-effects.

[TheRedSoxWinThePennant]

After reading the first paragraph. I knew I couldnt post anything that would be allowed on free republic

[Cicero]

Maybe it's time for someone to start marketing chastity belts. Young women like Alycia Brown might complain, but at least they'd be alive.

I wonder if the FDA would license the sale of chastity belts without a prescription?

[john_baldacci_is_a_commie]

14 years old, sexually active and dead, not a very nice obituary. Poor kid.

[MarkL]

Hey, you know, maybe if they can sue all of the birth control companies, then all of the pharmacutical birht control meds will be taken off the market, and then abortion will be the only legal method of birth control!

Mark

[Tax-chick]

And whom were they going to sue when their daughter was diagnosed with an incurable STD?

What are these people thinking? "Here's our daughter, boys ... free sex, and you don't have to be bothered with condoms, because we've put her on birth control for you!"

[MamaTexan]

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.

This is the harvest from sowing the 'it takes a village' mentality.

Children that are closely supervised usually don't have the chance to become sexually active.

[wagglebee]

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,

I have a feeling that if they had ignored "modern culture" (moral relativism/secular humanism) and done what their parental instincts (hopefully, should have) told them to do, this tragedy would have been avoided.

[dead]

The first thing you do if you find out your 14-year-old daughter is sexually active is call the police.

[Izzy Dunne]

they did what the modern culture told them was the right thing to do

WTF?

What is the "modem culture"?

And why would you trust your kids' lives to whatever "they" say?

If "they" all ran and jumped of the Empire State Building, I suppose you would let your kid do it too?

[Lorianne]

What kind of parents would put their 14 year old daughter on birth control?

[BunnySlippers]

I just read the news acticles in the LaCrosse newspaper online ... there IS more to the story.

But 5,000,000 women regularly use this patch according to the paper. That's a lot.