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The Pill

DVD
45 min
1999
RG137.5 .P55 2001 DVD

Chronicles little-known chapters in the history of the birth control pill and examines how much the pharmaceutical industry was willing to risk women's health. Puerto Rican women who became under informed test subjects are interviewed, as are Gloria Steinem, journalist Barbara Seaman, women's health activist Alice Wolfson, doctors who helped develop the pill, a medical ethicist, and other pill users.

Narrated by Anne-Marie MacDonald. Directed by Erna Buffie and Elise Swerhone ; produced by Joe MacDonald ; written by Erna Buffie.

Distributed by Women Make Movies.

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