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Jan 2021
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Part One: The Worst Birth Control Device...

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Robert is joined by Samantha McVey to discuss the Dalkon Shield.

FOOTNOTES:

1.    https://www.silentmother.com/2016/05/04/the-dalkon-shield-a-story-of-corporate-greed-a-lack-of-medical-testing-and-an-ongoing-fear-of-the-iud/


2.    http://advocatesaz.org/2016/03/28/instrument-of-torture-the-dalkon-shield-disaster/


3.    https://www.nytimes.com/1987/12/06/magazine/the-sad-legacy-of-the-dalkon-shield.html


4.    https://www.guttmacher.org/journals/psrh/2002/03/checkered-history-and-bright-future-intrauterine-contraception-united-states


5.    https://www.motherjones.com/politics/1979/11/charge-gynocide/ 


6.    http://imjournal.com/depo/IMCJ_12_1_p27_34Spevack.pdf


7.    https://climateandcapitalism.com/2009/11/23/the-dark-past-of-population-confrom/ 


8.    https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/4125211 


9.    https://www.sierraclub.org/washington/blog/2020/01/overpopulation-myth-and-its-dangerous-connotations


10. https://www.pop.org/population-control-and-the-new-global-racism/


11. https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/blog/2019/mar/9/how-racist-myths-built-population-growth-bogey-man  


12. https://www.macleans.ca/opinion/overpopulation-alarmism-only-marginalizes-the-worlds-most-vulnerable-people/


13. https://www.drugwatch.com/news/2013/06/28/mirena-litigation-dalkon-shield-injuries/


14. https://www.litigationandtrial.com/mirena-lawsuit-brain-injury/



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