Barbara Seaman, warned about birth-control pills
NEW YORK - Barbara Seaman, an advocate for women's health who raised questions about the safety of birth-control pills in the 1960s, has died. She was 72.
NEW YORK - Barbara Seaman, an advocate for women's health who raised questions about the safety of birth-control pills in the 1960s, has died. She was 72.
Seaman died Wednesday at her home of lung cancer, said Cindy Pearson, executive director of the National Women's Health Network, which Seaman helped found.
In 1969, she wrote "The Doctors' Case Against the Pill," which looked at such risks as blood clots and strokes and led to Senate hearings in 1970.
After the hearings, information about the risks began to be included with the pill. *
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