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“I Wrote Feminist Propaganda For Cosmopolitan.” - Writer Sue Ellen Browder

Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark

CHAPTER

The Dangers of Birth Control

In the early 1970s, it was Barbara Steeman, she launched the women's health revolution with her book The Doctors Case Against the Pill. She revealed over 50 potential side effects of the pill ranging from blood clots in fertility and breast cancer to irritability and depression. In the 1980s, she would be blacklisted from magazines by powerful pharmaceutical companies who refused to advertise in publications that carried her story. Do you know if Cosmo ever wrote about this? They never wrote about it. So much money.

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