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A professor told me years and years ago. The reason there is no birth control for men --who have a reproductive system MUCH MUCH simpler than women's-- is because they are unwilling to experiment on themselves.
Anybody who is a student of history and has read about how white people experimented on black women or how Nazi's experimented on Jewish people, should be familiar with this concept. Even when a company has no intention to torture their subject to gain medical knowledge, male run companies ARE WILLING to push drugs and devices through and tolerate all sorts of side effects they won't be sued for -- very often -- if there's a profit to be made.
But these same male run companies take no risks at all a man's possibly getting nauseous or not feeling like having sex due to "mild" side effects from a male birth control pill.
https://www.self.com/story/bayer-stop-selling-essure-in-the-us
Last year, drugmaker Bayer announced that it would discontinue sales of the controversial birth control device Essure outside of the U.S. And now Bayer says it will also stop selling Essure within the U.S. too.
"The device has been associated with serious risks, including persistent pain, perforation of the uterus and fallopian tubes, and migration of the coils into the pelvis or abdomen," FDA commissioner Scott Gottlieb, M.D. said in a statement last week. "As the FDA learned more from patients about the serious adverse events associated with this device, we took a series of important actions to better understand the benefits and risks, and to address patient safety concerns."
https://www.self.com/story/bayer-stop-selling-essure-in-the-us
A professor told me years and years ago. The reason there is no birth control for men --who have a reproductive system MUCH MUCH simpler than women's-- is because they are unwilling to experiment on themselves.
Anybody who is a student of history and has read about how white people experimented on black women or how Nazi's experimented on Jewish people, should be familiar with this concept. Even when a company has no intention to torture their subject to gain medical knowledge, male run companies ARE WILLING to push drugs and devices through and tolerate all sorts of side effects they won't be sued for -- very often -- if there's a profit to be made.
But these same male run companies take no risks at all a man's possibly getting nauseous or not feeling like having sex due to "mild" side effects from a male birth control pill.
Bayer Announced It Will Stop Selling Controversial Birth Control Device Essure in the U.S.
Among those actions was the FDA's decision in 2016 to have a black box warning added to Essure, designed to make sure patients better understood the risks associated with the product, including persistent pain, perforation of the uterus or fallopian tubes from device migration, abnormal bleeding, and allergy or hypersensitivity reactions. The black box is the strongest warning that the FDA issues, and indicates that research has found that the product comes with a significant risk of serious or life-threatening effects.
The FDA issued the warning after it heard complaints from 5,000 people that Essure was involved in unintended pregnancies, miscarriages, stillbirths, and severe pain and bleeding. Some patients also reported that it broke apart inside them.
~SELF
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