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Planned Parenthood in N.Y. Disavows Margaret Sanger Over Eugenics
By Nikita Stewart
July 21, 2020 - New York Times

A Tough Pill to Swallow: The Racist Foundations of the Birth Control Movement
by Jesi Taylor Cruz
June 4th, 2020 - Blood + Milk

Why You Should Care About the Medical Device Safety Act
By Carol Wertheimer
April 17, 2019 - MedTruth.

Let’s compensate victims of California’s forced sterilization program — quickly, before they die
By The Times Editorial Board
May 18, 2018 - Los Angeles Times

After a rocky start, the IUD is now celebrating its 50th birthday
By Katherine Ellen Foley
January 27, 2018 - Quartz

Israeli gynecologist builds a better IUD. 
By Abigail Klein Leichman
December, 25 2017 - Israel21c

The Cooper Companies Completes Acquisition of PARAGARD® IUD From Teva 
November 1, 2017

The U.S. Is Still Forcibly Sterilizing Prisoners
by Lea Hunter
August 23, 2017 - Talk Poverty

Drug agency re-evaluates hormone spirals
June 13, 2017 - CBG Network

MIRENA's dark soul
BAYER's hormone spirals under observation
By Jan Pehrke
June 2017 - CBG Network

Warren Buffett's family secretly funded a birth control revolution
Danielle Paquette
August 9, 2015 - The Washington Post

Warren Buffett Has Secretly Given Millions To Support Reproductive Health, Research For IUD Technology
By Cameron Keady 
August 3, 2015 - Huffington Post

Have an IUD? Thank Warren Buffett
By Danielle Paquette 
July 31, 2015 - Washington Post

IUDs Have A New, Secret Billionaire Backer
by Elizabeth Kiefer 
July 30, 2015 - Refinery29

Warren Buffett’s Family Secretly Funded a Birth Control Revolution
By Karen Weise
July 30, 2015 - Bloomberg News

The Great LARC Debate: facilitating a balanced approach to education and promotion of LARCs
By Coco Jervis
July 24, 2015 - Women’s Health Activist Newsletter

IUS Evangelism: The Troubling Truth Behind the Rise of the Coil
By Holly Grigg-Spall,
Author of 'Sweetening the Pill'
June 17, 2015 -The Telegraph

IUS evangelism: The troubling truth behind the rise of the coil
Holly Grigg-Spall,
Author of 'Sweetening the Pill',
June 17, 2015 - CBG Network

The Birth of the Pill
How Four Crusaders Reinvented Sex and Launched a Revolution
by Jonathan Eig

Bayer, Red Bull: Fake Advertising in Social Media
December 5, 2014 -
CBG (Coalition Against Bayer-dangers)

History of Forced Sterilization and Current U.S. Abuses
By Kathryn Krase
October 1, 2014 - Our Bodies Ourselves

GP incentive scheme increases long-term reversible contraceptive prescriptions
by Franca Davenport
April 7, 2014 - Imperial College of London News

Impact of Pay for Performance on Prescribing of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception in Primary Care: An Interrupted Time Series Study
by Myat E. Arrowsmith, Azeem Majeed, John Tayu Lee, Sonia Saxena - PLOS ONE
April 2, 2014

CIR Prison Investigation Opens Another Chapter on Sterilization of Women in U.S.
By Rachel Walden
July 10, 2013 - Our Bodies Ourselves

Mirena Lawsuits Piling Up? What's Next?
Learning 2 Walk Again
December 6, 2012

The Mirena IUD is Becoming More Popular – and the Lawsuits are Piling Up
Steven W. Mosher 

November 20, 2012 - Population Research Council

Changes in use of long-acting contraceptive methods in the U.S., 2007–2009 
Lawrence B. Finer, Ph.D., Jenna Jerman, M.P.H., & Megan L. Kavanaugh, Dr.P.H. - Guttmacher Institute
Available online July 13, 2012.

BAYER: Marketing Expenses Concealed
March 30, 2012 - Press Release
Coalition against BAYER Dangers (Germany)

Victims speak out about North Carolina sterilization program, which targeted women, young girls and blacks
By Michelle Kessel and Jessica Hopper
November 7, 2011 - NBC News

The case that hung by a thread:
Dalkon Shield IUD
Professor Walter’s History Lessons
August 18, 2011

Contraceptive Comeback:
The Maligned IUD Gets a Second Chance
by Jennifer Couzin-Frankel
July 15, 2011 - Wired

Victims of Bayer Contraceptives to appear at Shareholder Meeting
Press Release - April 13, 2011
Coalition against Bayer Dangers (Germany)

Eugenics: Compulsory Sterilization in 50 American States
By Lutz Kaelber - Associate Professor of Sociology
Fall 2010 - Spring 2011 - University of Vermont

FDA OKs IUD for heavy menstrual bleeding
United Press International
October 5, 2009 - Science News

The Dark History of Bayer Drugs
May 2008 - iLawsuit

50 years on, Puerto Rico remembers the pill
by Michael Cook
Apr 16, 2004 - BioEdge - Bioethics News from around the World

Warren Buffett Ends Support for Population Control Programs
PRI Staff -  
July 1, 2003

Threads discussing Warren Buffet articles

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Warren Buffett Biography

• Birth Control Before the Pill

• Eugenics and Birth Control

• Roots of the Pill

• G.D. Searle Develops the Pill

• The FDA Approves the Pill

• The Pill and Informed Consent

• The Puerto Rico Pill Trials

• A Timeline of Contraception

• The Side Effects of the Pill

• Senate Hearings on the Pill

• The Pill in America

• Past Pill Use

Eugenics Victims to Get Apology
By Associated Press
November 16, 2002 - Eugene Register Guard

Helen Rodriquez-Trias and Eunice Corfman
National Women’s Health Network Pioneers
December 2001

Helen Rodriquez-Trias Biography
Changing Face of Medicine - NIH
December 2001

Product Liability and the Threat to Contraception
By Marc Arkin
February 1, 1999 - Manhattan Institute
Detailed history of IUD contraceptions, especially the Copper 7 and Copper T that I found quite disturbing & eye opening. 

Dalkon Shield Trust to Pay $800 Million
By The Associated Press
October 4, 1995 - New York Times

Searle to Settle Copper-7 IUD Suits
By Reuters
June 16, 1989 - New York Times

Searle to Settle Some Copper-7 IUD Suits
From Associated Press
June 16, 1989 - LA Times

Settlement Reached In Copper 7 IUD Trial
By Richard De Atley
April 5, 1989 - Associated Press

Searle, Assailing Lawsuits, Halts U.S. Sales of Intrauterine Devices
By Tamar Lewin
February 1, 1986 - New York Times

What A. H. Robins Has Wrought
By Barnaby J. Feder
December 13, 1987 - New York Times

The Sad Legacy of the Dalkon Shield
By Gina Kolata - New York Times
December 6, 1987

The Dalkon Shield Disaster
By Robin Marantz Henig
November 17, 1985 - Washington Post

Chronicle of a Scandal
By Rona Cherry
September 22, 1985 - New York Times

Dalkon Shield Gives Birth to a Generation of Lawsuits
Karen Kenney
April 30, 1985 - Chicago Tribune

After a Lawyer Turns Whistle-Blower, the Company That Made the Dalkon Shield Warns Women of Its Dangers
By Jane Sims Podesta
January 14, 1985 - People Magazine

Judge criticized for Dalkon Shield remarks
By Tom Uhlenbrock
November 3, 1984 - United Press International

The Corporate Crime of the Century
Mark Dowie - Mother Jones
November/December 1979

The Charge: Gynocide - The Accused: The U.S. Government
Mark Dowie, Barbara Ehrenreich & Stephen Minkin - Mother Jones
November / December 1979

It1Me
39+ articles about IUDs
Lots of history and a listing of different types.
- Copper IUD
- IUD with Progestogen
- Long Active Reversible Contraception

Official Liletta FDA Approval

Mirena Releasing Intrauterine System: Side Effects, Interactions ...
Rx List

World Health Organization
Publications index

The Mirena IUD is Becoming More Popular – and the Lawsuits are Piling Up
Steven W. Mosher 
November 20, 2012 

Current lawsuit promotion regarding Mirena

Mirena IUD Lawsuits -
Dangerous Medical Devices

Mirena IUD Neurological Side Effects Include Pseudotumor Cerebri
By Tamara Burns - December 29, 2016

Mirena Intracranial Hypertension Concerns are Serious
By Joanna Szabo - December 22, 2016

Mirena Recall

Mirena Side Effects Can Mimic Brain Tumor
By Tamara Burns - December 9, 2016

Pseudotumor Cerebri Linked to Mirena Brain Side Effects
By Amanda Antell - December 27, 2016

Paragard IUD Lawsuits
In Search of the Truth
Tosi Law LLP

Recent lawsuit over Paragard migrating & imbedding in colon.  Links to other side effects.