SYNETHIC OESTROGENS WERE INTRODUCED IN THE THE THIRTIES, THE FIRST WAS (DES) DIETHYL STIBOESTROL PRESCRIBED TO PREGNANT WOMAN TO PREVENT A MISCARRIAGE IN EARLY PREGNANCY. UNFORTUNATELY, THE CHILDREN OF MOTHER'S WHO WERE PRESCRIBED THIS DRUG SUFFERED THE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS DRUG IN LATER YEARS. THE DAUGHTERS OF THE MOTHERS WHO TOOK THIS DRUG DEVELOPED RARE VAGINAL AND CERVICAL CANCER AND BREAST CANCER. THE SONS WERE AT A HIGH RISK OF GENITALIA PROBLEMS, UNDEVELOPED TESTES AND A LOWER SPERM COUNT AS WELL AS TESTICLE CANCER AND PROSTRATE CANCER.
IT WAS KNOWN AS THE
'SILENT THALIDOMIDE'I
N THE FIFTIES THE
'HOROMONE PREGNANCY TESTING DRUG PRIMODOS, MANUFACTURED BY THE GERMAN COMPANY, SCHERING CHEMICALS, NOW BAYER SCHERING CHEMICALS, AND AMENORONE FORTE MANUFACURED BY THE FRENCH COMPANY, ROUSSEL WERE USED TO DETERMINE A PREGNANCY. THE GP TOLD EXPECTANT MOTHERS IF THEY CAME ON A PERIOD THEN THEY WERE NOT PREGNANT. THOUSANDS OF PRESCRIPTIONS WERE GIVEN TO PREGNANT MOTHERS. THE TWO PILLS THEY TOOK ( EQUIVALENT TO 80 ORAL CONTRACEPTIVES AND 2 BIRTH DEFORMING AGENTS AS IN THALIDOMIDE). LITTLE WERE THEY TO KNOW THAT MANY OF THEIR PREGNANCIES WERE EITHER ABORTED BY TAKING THIS DRUG, OR WHO HAD BABIES THAT DIED AT BIRTH, DIED IN EARLY INFANCY, OR FOR THE MANY WHO SURVIVED THIS HORROR DRUG, ARE STILL STRUGGLING WITH THEIR ABNORMALITIES THEY WERE BORN WITH TODAY. THE LIST OF BIRTH DEFECTS VARIES FROM HEART, GENITALIA, SHORTENED LIMBS, CLEFT PALATES, KIDNEY DAMAGE, ARE JUST BUT A FEW.
MY SON WAS BORN IN 1975 WITH MUTIPLE ABNORMALITIES TO HIS HEART, KIDNEY, AND GENITALIA. ONE YEAR AFTER MY SON WAS BORN IN 1976 I WAS PRESCRIBED
'PRIMODOS' AGAIN, BUT THIS TIME BECAUSE I WAS NOT HAVING A MONTHLY PERIODS. WHY THEN WAS I PRESCRIBED BY MY GP
-THE SAME DRUG 'PRIMODOS' FOR TWO DIFFERENT DIAGNOSTIC PROCEDURES' I BEGAN TO CAMPAIGN WITH THE HELP OF A THEN JOURNALIST, GREG DYKE TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS IN THIS COCKTAIL OF POSION. IT SOON BECAME APPARENT THAT THERE WAS SO MUCH OPPOSITION FROM THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND SCIENTIST FROM AROUND THE WORLD, OPPOSING THE USE OF PREGNANCY TEST AND WITH THE INCREACE OF BIRTH DEFECTS.
UNKNOWN IN 1971 ROUSSEL STOPPED MANUFACTURING
'AMENORONE FORTE 'DUE TO THE ADVERSE PUBLICITY WITH REGARD TO THE INCREASING BIRTH DEFECTS IN MOTHERS WHO TOOK THIS PREGNANCY TEST.
UNFORTUNATELY, SCHERING CHEMICAL CONTINUED TO MANUFACTURE
'PRIMODOS' IN THIS COUNTRY BUT CHOSE NOT TO INFORM OUR GOVERNMENT, AND THE COMITTEE OF SAFETY AND MEDICINE. AS A RESULT GENERAL PRACTITIONERS CONTINUED TO
PRESCRIBE PRIMODOS UNTIL IT WAS BANNED IN THIS COUNTRY IN 1975 AFTER MOUNTING PRESSURE FROM THE MEDIA, SCIENTIST, TWO HUNDRED MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND THE MEDICAL PROFESSION. MANY GENERAL PRACTITIONERS CONTINUED TO PRESCRIBE
'PRIMODOS' UNTIL THE SECOND WARNING FROM THE COMMITTEE OF SAFETY AND MEDICINE. ISSUED A SECOND WARNING IN 1978, BY THEN 71,000 MORE UNBORN BABIES WERE AT RISK . THE UK GOVERNMENT REFUSED AN INQUIRY THEN EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE NEGLIGENT TO PROTECT THE UNBORN BABY. YET THE ASSOCIATION FOR CHILDREN DAMAGED BY HORMONE PREGNANCY TESTING WERE CONTINUALLY DENIED A GOVERNMENT INQUIRY AND ARE STILL BEING DENIED TODAY (2011). THERE WERE STILL MANY EUROPEAN COUNTRIES, AUSTRALIA, JAPAN AND AMERICA WHO ALSO BANNED THESE HORMONE PREGNANCY TEST DRUGS AS EARLY AS IN 1971
TODAY THE INCREASING FEARS OF SYNTHETIC OESTROGENS AS STATED ABOVE, CONTINUE TO CAUSE ALARM WITH THE EVER INCREASING BREAST CANCER AND OTHERS IN WOMEN AND TESTICLE CANCER AND LOW SPERM COUNT IN MEN. EVEN OUR ANIMALS AND WILDLIFE HAVE NOT ESCAPED THE PERILS OF THESE HORMONES DRUGS BY INCREASING FEMINIZATION IN MALES AND LOW SPERM COUNTS. IF THIS TREND CONTINUES THEN THE EFFECTS OF THESE DRUGS THAT ARE EXCRETED IN OUR WATERWAYS WHICH WATER TREATMENTS CANNOT TREAT, ARE A THREAT NOT ONLY TO MAN BUT TO THE WHOLE OF OUR WILDLEFE AND ENVIRONMENT. THE MINISTRY OF AGRICULTURE IN THE UK WERE WELL VERSED OF THESE ISSUES AT SEWER WATER OUTLETS BUT REFUSED TO DISCLOSE THIS INFORMATION FOR A FURTHER TWO YEARS.
QUESTIONS HAVE BEEN RAISED RECENTLY BY CAROLINE LUCAS A THEN MEP AND NOW LEADER OF THE GREEN PARTY AND CLAUDE MORAES MEP WERE ABLE TO RAISE QUESTIONS ON MY BEHALF AT THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT ON THE SAFETY AND WHAT PRODUCTS, IF ANY ARE BANNED DUE TO THEIR HIGH OR SYNTHETIC OESTROGENIC CONTENT? THERE WERE A NUMBER OF RESPONCES BUT ONE CONCERNED THE PROHIBITION ON THE USE IN STOCK FARMING OF CERTAIN SUBSTANCES HAVING A HORMONAL OR THYREOSTATIC ACTION IN ALL FOOD PRODUCING ANIMALS. WHY THEN ARE SYNTHETIC OESTROGENS STILL BEING CONSIDERED SAFE TO BE USED IN HUMAN MEDICINES IE: HORMONE THERAPY TREATMENT, THE CONTRACEPTIVE PILL AND OTHERS WHICH ARE UNDER SCRUTINY TODAY! YET BANNED IN ANIMAL PRODUCE.
WHEN CLAUS NEWMAN WHO LOOKED AFTER THE THALIDOMIDE CHILDREN IN ROEHAMPTON LONDON IN THE SIXTIES - EIGHTIES, WAS INTERVIEWED ON
'THE THALIDOMIDE PROGRAMME 'THE REUNION' ON BBC RADIO 4 MAY 2009 WAS ASKED, "WHY WERE THE VICTIMS
OF THALIDOMIDE' BORN LIKE THEY WERE" HIS REPLY WAS TO SAY THAT THE ONLY COMPARISON HE COULD REMEMBER WAS WITH A HORMONE PREGNANCY TESTING DRUG
CALLED 'PRIMODOS' THIS WAS BECAUSE HE BELIEVED THAT THERE WERE MORE CHILDREN DAMAGED BY
''THALIDOMIDE' THAN JUST LIMB DEFORMITIES.
TO CONCLUDE, WE HAVE DONE SO MUCH DAMAGE IN THE LAST SIXTY YEARS, ARE WE GOING TO CONTINUE DENYING THE AFFECTS OF SYNTHETIC OESTROGENS WHICH IS ALREADY HAVING A DRAMATIC IMPACT TODAY, WITH CONCERNS FOR OUR FUTURE GENERATIONS, OR ARE WE GOING TO PUT PRESSURE ON THOSE IN OUR GOVERNMENT AS WELL AS TO GRANT A GOVERNMENT INQUIRY FOR THE PRIMODOS VICTIMS THAT SHOULD HAVE BEEN IMPLEMENTED OVER THIRTY SIX YEARS AGO. IN 2011 BAYER HAS DROPPED THE NAME OF SCHERINGS FROM THEIR TRADING NAME AND IN MAY OF THIS YEAR, BAYER HAS CONTACTED THE pRIMODOS SOLICITOR TO TALK ABOUT PRIMODOS. THE PRIMODOS VICTIMS HAVE ALSO BEEN GIVEN PART LEGAL AID DUE TO A MISCARRIAGE OF JUSTICE BY BAYERSCHERING;S FALISFYING THEIR RESEARCH PAPERS WHICH PREVENTED THE VICTIMS OF PRIMODOS WINNING THEIR CASE IN COURT IN 1982 . IT REMAINS TO BE SEEN IF BAYER ARE SERIOUS WITH AN OFFER TO COMPENSATE THE VICTIMS OF PRIMODOS
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