Effect of Stilbestrol on the Myometrial and Endometrial Activity of the Human Castrate Uterus

Lackner, Julius E.; Tulsky, Alex S.

doi:10.1210/jcem-1-5-415

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“…Common side effects included nausea, so it was often taken with an anti-nausea medication, ectopic pregnancies and increased cancer risks in the children of women who took DES (Sparrow, 1979;'What They Don't Tell You', n.d.). Although how DES acts remains largely unknown, it has been shown that DES does affect endometrial and myometrial tissue in the uterus (Lackner & Tulsky, 1941). The effects on these tissue layers could prevent implantation of a fertilised egg, giving DES its emergency contraceptive effects.…”

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Contraception in Aotearoa: Shaped by and Shaping Family, Morality, Religion, Science, and Women's Reproductive Rights

Gilling¹

2021

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<p>Throughout the history of contraception in Aotearoa, the position of women as contraceptive users has been shaped by society and legislation. At the beginning of the twentieth century, due to the racial fears of the time, legislators banned contraceptive use from the feared mortality of white New Zealanders. The eugenic and racial logics that drove the original prevention of access to contraceptives were also influential in the establishment of organisations like the New Zealand Family Planning Association that was able to work towards establishing birth control clinics. Family and religious morality played a major role in how people responded to contraceptive use. In 1954, they were mobilised in the Mazengarb Inquiry, condemning parents who did not fit into the narrow roles expected of them by the Inquiry members. They appeared again throughout the 1977 Royal Commission into Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion. Family and religious morality not only shaped these investigations, but also the ways individuals responded to different aspects of contraception and the surrounding conversation. The personal morality of individual Members of Parliament shaped their position in the debate of the 1977 Contraception, Sterilisation and Abortion Bill and with how doctors and other medical professionals responded. This culminated in decision-makers and individuals in the public sphere imposing their own morality to justify conflating abortion and contraception, which resulted in doctors and other medical professionals controlling access to contraception. In Aotearoa, women’s ability to access contraception and contraceptive information, controlled and restricted by these political, legal, and moralistic forces as exemplified and focused by these key events, has shaped their position as contraceptive users.</p>

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Section: The Emergency Contraceptive Pillmentioning

confidence: 99%