Bayer keeps pushing it to make money, the FDA keeps approving it to make money, ignorant women keep using them so they can screw whenever they want to without accountability .... ooopps, looks like 4,000 or more got more than they bargained for huh?
In late September 2010, the FDA approved a “new” birth control pill called Beyaz. The lawsuit-beleaguered pharmaceutical company Bayer manufactures the drug. Beyaz is short for “Beyond Yaz,” in reference to Yaz, an earlier form of the same birth control formula. Beyaz includes a folate supplement in the pill. Beyaz could prove instrumental in Bayer’s undoing if more than 4,000 lawsuits against Bayer meet with success.
The lawsuits claim that Bayer didn’t properly test the active ingredients in Yaz, Yasmin, Ocella, and now Beyaz. Additional complaints allege that women suffered side effects ranging from gallbladder disease and thromboembolism to heart attack and stroke. The plaintiffs all share the claim that Bayer did not adequately warn them about the high risk of side effects incurred by taking Yaz when compared to other birth control pills without drospirenone, the main ingredient targeted in the Yaz lawsuits.
The official Yaz web site reports that the drug can harm fetuses and contaminate breast milk and should not be taken if pregnant. This contradicts the advertising campaign waged by Bayer for Beyaz claiming that adding folic acid to Yaz constitutes a better chance for a healthy fetus. If the lawsuits against Bayer win, it is possible that Yaz will be withdrawn from the market with Beyaz along for the ride.
A huge study by the British Journal of Medicine in early September 2009 revealed that drospirenone “causes a greater-than-usual number of blood clots compared to older pills,” CBS Business Network reported. Apparently neither the FDA nor Bayer took the study results or the thousands of pending lawsuits into consideration when moving forward and releasing Beyaz to the public.
I don't beleve in women taking drugs in order to not have to answer to responsibility for their actions.
Funny ...... people want their cake and eat it too. In this case - and so many drug's like it - women thought they were getting to have all the sex they wanted with none of the responsibility. But like all drugs, the side affects killed quite a few, and what, 4,000 lawsuits and counting on the side affects of those drugs.
Guess it wasn't such an easy out afterall - instead of the responsibility for the sex, now they're faced with the personal responsibility that comes with taking drugs.
I think you will find your the minority in your view. Now that I think about it, for the second time, I think it is a pointless view. When I was married my wife took the pill between our planned pregnancies with both of our sons. Glad she wasn't one of the 4,000 irresponsible women that you talk about.
Hope you never have to take a cholesteral or a high blood pressure drug. I wouldn't want you suffering any side effects from such drug due to your irresponsible eating habits. After all, you want your cake and eat it too, huh?
All my girlfriends have taken it, and none of them are knocked up...
Does this make them irresponsible for there actions? Isnt a guy allowed to get drunk on the weekends and play some mattress tag without being doomed to hell?
This is 2010, not 1910...are you inferring these 4,000 woman "got what they deserved?" because they wanted to have sex? Or even better yet, because they took a "drug?". Geeze, i must be a pill popping maniac for all that ibuprofen ive taken in my life
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I don't believe in women taking drugs in order to not have to answer to responsibility for their actions.
The obvious inference is that you promote abstinence first and foremost.
Lol, in a perfect world, in a perfect world. Fact is, you and arguably 70% or more on this forum had pre-marital sex. Or would you like to deny that?
But...that's different, right? Do as I say, not as I do.
The same goes for marriage. Everyone condemns people who violate their marriage vows, but if this forum is representative of American society at large, the divorce rate among our members is 50% or more.
Can you say hypocrite, boys and girls?
I favor making birth control available to anyone who seeks it, period. The side effects listed on this post are remarkable because of their rarity when one examines the entire spectrum of birth control and the astronomical numbers of abortions prevented by their usage.
I don't beleve in women taking drugs in order to not have to answer to responsibility for their actions.
Funny ...... people want their cake and eat it too. In this case - and so many drug's like it - women thought they were getting to have all the sex they wanted with none of the responsibility. But like all drugs, the side affects killed quite a few, and what, 4,000 lawsuits and counting on the side affects of those drugs.
Guess it wasn't such an easy out afterall - instead of the responsibility for the sex, now they're faced with the personal responsibility that comes with taking drugs.
Sorry, dude... but, that's just not a very well thought out position... Ranks right up there on the intellectual scale with some of WillPA's posts...
Why should a monogamous married couple not be able to rely on "the pill" as a method of birth control if they make the decision that they have had enough kids, that they can't afford more kids, that they want to have kids later rather than now, etc.? Or, are you suggesting that they ought to just quit "doing it" or that they should only have sex when they want to have kids? The problem here is not that they're "doing drugs," as you so eloquently put it, in order "to avoid personal responsibility." The problem is that they took personal responsibility to prevent getting pregnant and apparently wound up with undisclosed side effects from improperly tested pharmaceuticals.
My wife was never on a drug for birth control, too dangerous when non-dangerous methods were always easily accessible.
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Hope you never have to take a cholesteral or a high blood pressure drug. I wouldn't want you suffering any side effects from such drug due to your irresponsible eating habits. After all, you want your cake and eat it too, huh?
why would I have high blood pressure or cholesterol? poor diet and lack of excercise mainly cause the above, I will likely never suffer from either but your'e right - if I drug up instead of diet excercise, the side affect of the drugs I'd take would be fair enough.
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This is 2010, not 1910...are you inferring these 4,000 woman "got what they deserved?" because they wanted to have sex? Or even better yet, because they took a "drug?". Geeze, i must be a pill popping maniac for all that ibuprofen ive taken in my life
yes, exactly right - they wanted to use an unproven drug sold to them as a means to have their cake and eat it too and it bit them in the ass
deserved it? maybe too harsh ..... but ironic? expected? fair? maybe each of the above in some way
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The obvious inference is that you promote abstinence first and foremost.
wrong
condoms are a great benefit - so is a diaphram. both of them have zero side affects
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I favor making birth control available to anyone who seeks it, period. The side effects listed on this post are remarkable because of their rarity when one examines the entire spectrum of birth control and the astronomical numbers of abortions prevented by their usage
rare? do a little research on the drugs being recalled, the lawsuits, do some studying on the side affects of the drugs, the IUD's etc.
its not rare - it is in fact, common, but nobody wants to talk about it
this isn't about anything but the health of women, and women's choices to take drugs with harmful side affect and using birth control with the same all to get their cake and eat it too ..... when there are far safer methods
tell me WHY we need, as a society, a new drug to stop conception vc when we have condoms and diaphrams aplenty? c'mon .... you know as well as I do its all about $$$$ and so what if a few thousand women suffer? pay out the cash to shut them up, many won't ever even file a suit and the drug companies make money, launch a new and improved version and BAM! again make big money
beautiful birth control drugs
