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Parents Sue After 14-Year-Old Daughter Died with Birth Control Patch
Life Site News.net ^ | 11.21.05 | Hilary White

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



TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Wisconsin
KEYWORDS: alyciabrown; birthcontrol; bloodclots; contraception; emboli; fda; hormones; lacrosse; lawsuit; moralabsolutes; schools; sexeducation; sexuallyactiveteens; slut; students; teenagesex; whore; wisconsin
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To: MarkL
Yes. For the same reason that the American drug companies no longer produce and provide flu medicine. Trial lawyers are killing the domestic market. Then people piss & moan about offshore sourcing.

*shaking head so many times, I'm getting dizzy*

101 posted on 11/26/2005 6:44:07 PM PST by Cobra64
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To: goldstategop
You have swallowed too much PC. You simply cannot simplify this by blaming parents. Parents control over children has been zeroed out by so many outside influences that parents are at the very bottom of the list. People now believe that it is normal for 14 year olds to "experiment with sex", as opposed to being "curious about sex", and of course, the solution to the problem is to prevent birth. Oh, my God, what has happened to reality?
102 posted on 11/26/2005 6:45:02 PM PST by truthpls
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To: Campion
I don't have any magic bullets that will keep a kid a virgin until his or her wedding night. Keeping a kid a virgin until she or he turns 16 is not really that difficult. Education, supervision, rules, expectations (high ones), and hands-on parenting is what it takes. Prayer is useful as well.

How about a shotgun and a shovel? =)


103 posted on 11/26/2005 6:46:04 PM PST by Zeroisanumber
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To: WV Mountain Mama
I am not all that informed on the patch and it's side effects. I was responding to the post and its reference to how dangerous they sounded according to the commercials. That post said they were scary.

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........

104 posted on 11/26/2005 6:46:53 PM PST by SeaDragon
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To: SeaDragon
Each year, use of NSAIDs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs) accounts for an estimated 7,600 deaths and 76,000 hospitalizations in the United States.

NSAIDs include aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, diclofenac, ketoprofen, and tiaprofenic acid.

It happens.

105 posted on 11/26/2005 6:47:47 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: Zeroisanumber

12 gauge with ought buckshot, backed up by a full clip of 9mm hollow points. :-)


106 posted on 11/26/2005 6:48:13 PM PST by Campion ("I am so tired of you, liberal church in America" -- Mother Angelica, 1993)
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To: SeaDragon
Here's the source, including more details:

http://www.annals.org/cgi/content/full/127/6/429

107 posted on 11/26/2005 6:48:42 PM PST by HitmanLV (Listen to my demos for Savage Nation contest: http://www.geocities.com/mr_vinnie_vegas/index.html)
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To: SeaDragon
Planned Parenthood can have good points both directions

Surely you jest. What GOOD point comes from "planned parenthood", and the likes of Margaret Sanger????????

108 posted on 11/26/2005 6:49:36 PM PST by mombonn (¡Viva Bush/Cheney!)
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To: Lorianne
What kind of parents would put their 14 year old daughter on birth control?

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.

109 posted on 11/26/2005 6:50:22 PM PST by caryatid (Jolie Blonde, 'gardez donc, quoi t'as fait ...)
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To: Chode
"it seems like facilitating the sexual promiscuity of you own minor child is Contributing to the Delinquency of a Minor and Child Abuse. but that's just me... "

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.

110 posted on 11/26/2005 6:50:23 PM PST by GBA (I believe Congressman Weldon! MSM do your job.)
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To: Guenevere
I don't know where you're coming from, and why you feel the need to defend Planned Parenthood....

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.

111 posted on 11/26/2005 6:50:26 PM PST by SeaDragon
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To: Michael.SF.
If she had just kept he legs Le Crosse(d)she would be alive today.

LeCross Birth Control


112 posted on 11/26/2005 6:50:29 PM PST by Major_Risktaker
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To: SeaDragon

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.


113 posted on 11/26/2005 6:51:15 PM PST by WV Mountain Mama (I have a drink at night for my heart. Yeah, my heart, that's it.)
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To: Coleus

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.


114 posted on 11/26/2005 6:53:10 PM PST by Puddleglum (Thank God the Boston blowhard lost)
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To: Guenevere
LOL, Guen - we may not participate as often as in last years, but we gravitate toward the same threads!

Cheers, sweetie!

115 posted on 11/26/2005 6:53:33 PM PST by mombonn (¡Viva Bush/Cheney!)
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To: Young Scholar
What risks are associated with staying chaste?

None that I am aware of but that isn't the point.

116 posted on 11/26/2005 6:53:47 PM PST by SeaDragon
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To: Paul C. Jesup

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...


117 posted on 11/26/2005 6:53:52 PM PST by forgotten conservative (The many, the proud, the ignored and derided.)
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To: Campion
12 gauge with ought buckshot, backed up by a full clip of 9mm hollow points. :-)

Wow. I was thinking more of a .410 with rock salt, but I like your dedication. =)

118 posted on 11/26/2005 6:53:53 PM PST by Zeroisanumber
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This really stinks. Parents know shes having sex @ 14 and the only idea they have is birth control?


119 posted on 11/26/2005 6:55:13 PM PST by Cougar66 (If I had ever wanted a woman to be President, I'd have voted for John Kerry)
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To: kenth
I'm sure Tom Daschle would be happy to join you in your sadness.

FYATHYRIO

120 posted on 11/26/2005 6:56:05 PM PST by SeaDragon
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