Gideon Phillips Sells and Henrietta Bellaria Perrigo

Gideon Phillips Sells and Henrietta Bellaria Perrigo

Iowa Landscape Gideon Phillips Sells and Henrietta Bellaria Perrigo are my second grand uncle and grand aunt. Gideon and Henrietta married on December 22, 1872, in Clark County, Missouri. Gideon’s parents were Elijah Sells and Phebe Walker. Henrietta’s parents were Jonathan Perrigo, Sr., and Mary Caroline Ann Keokuk. All these family members came together in the corner of Missouri called Clark…

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FDA Approves Opill as First Over-the-Counter Daily Oral Contraceptive, Expanding Access to Birth Control

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so unbelievably mad at my dermatologist right now. picked up a prescription for a cream for my face today only to realize it was made in Israel :( I didn’t know what the prescription was as she didn’t tell me the brand or name except for the general name. if I had known, I would’ve told her no or asked for a different brand. it’s so sad, I unwillingly gave money toward genocide and I didn’t know. I feel so guilty. beware of Perrigo! free Palestine! (picture under the cut!)

🗣️Some good news!

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the United States, a milestone that could significantly expand access to contraception.

The medication, called Opill, will become the most effective birth control method available over the counter — more effective at preventing pregnancy than condoms, spermicides and other nonprescription methods. Experts in reproductive health said its availability could be especially useful for young women, teenagers and those who have difficulty dealing with the time, costs or logistical hurdles involved in visiting a doctor to obtain a prescription.

The pill’s manufacturer, Perrigo Company, based in Dublin, said Opill would most likely become available from stores and online retailers in the United States in early 2024.

The company did not say how much the medication would cost — a key question that will help determine how many people will use the pill — but Frédérique Welgryn, Perrigo’s global vice president for women’s health, said in a statement that the company was committed to making the pill “accessible and affordable to women and people of all ages.” Ms. Welgryn has also said the company would have a consumer assistance program to provide the pill at no cost to some women.

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Opill birth control: First over-the-counter pill will hit shelves this month

A one-month supply of Opill, the over-the-counter birth control pill, will cost $19.99, pill manufacturer Perrigo announced March 4, 2024. A three-month supply will cost $49.99.

The pill will be available in retail pharmacies starting in late March, the company said. Both Walgreens and CVS will carry Opill.

An over-the-counter birth control pill will be available to Americans for the first time early next year — but it’s not yet clear what it will cost or if insurance will cover it.

downthread of the Billy Perrigo tweet are a lot of articles on the abysmal working conditions and pay scales for big tech companies' African and South American content moderators

Nestlé has issued a voluntary recall for some of its Good Start Soothe infant formula sold in Canada due to a potential bacteria contamination. Distributor Perrigo Company says the product is being recalled out of an abundance of caution due to the potential presence of the bacteria Cronobacter sakazakii. The affected formula was sold across Canada in 942-gram packages, with the lot numbers 301757651Z, 301757652Z and 301857651Z, and best before dates of July 18 and 19, 2024.

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Date of Article: March 18th, 2023.

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_ Isso é impossível! _ o olhar de Marcelo variava muito entre a raiva e a incompreensão. Já chegou falando, sem dar muitas explicações, no momento em que viu a noiva. _ Donna, eu jamais serria um pai que colocarria os filhos em perrigo. Non sei que futurro é esse que você veio, mas eu non parrte del.

The United States reached a major milestone in reproductive health care on Thursday: The FDA approved a birth control pill for over-the-counter sale without a prescription.

The medication, known as Opill, is already available with a prescription and has been approved for contraceptive use for half a century. It is more than 90 percent effective at preventing pregnancies, making it more effective than other over-the-counter options like condoms or spermicides. It uses only one hormone, progestin, which needs a few days to take effect; other birth control pills usually include estrogen as well and can be effective immediately if started at the appropriate time in the menstrual cycle.

The OTC version of Opill is expected to reach the market in early 2024. When it finally arrives on shelves, the US will join more than 100 other countries that already allow for certain contraceptives to be sold over the counter. Advocacy groups and some politicians have been calling for years for OTC birth control to be approved.

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The Affordable Care Act requires health insurers to cover at least one prescription contraceptive as part of their benefits, but not any over-the-counter medication. So, barring any policy change, people’s ability to access Opill over the counter will depend on the price its manufacturer, Perrigo Company, sets.

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One exception could be people on Medicaid in the 10 states that already cover over-the-counter contraceptives without a prescription. (Other states still require a doctor’s prescription for OTC products, and, in at least six states, OTC birth control of any kind has not been covered historically.)

Efforts are already underway to try to ease the cost burden of Opill. Biden has ordered his administration to consider various strategies for covering the cost of the drug. He asked the federal Health, Labor, and Treasury Departments to consult with employers, pharmacists, and insurers about how they could provide that coverage. He also asked the relevant agencies to draft guidance for best practices for providing “seamless coverage” of OTC birth control. Those discussions could draw on the examples of states like Delaware, which already cover OTC contraceptives through their Medicaid program.

"For the first time, an oral contraceptive is going to be available over the counter, without a prescription. On July 13, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced that it has approved the contraceptive pill Opill. Many are praising the FDA’s decision as a significant step toward making contraception more widely available. Perrigo Company, the pill's Dublin-based manufacturer, stated that Opill will most likely be available in grocery and convenience stores, as well as online, in early 2024. Perrigo’s president and CEO Murray Kessler called the FDA’s decision “a new, groundbreaking chapter in reproductive health.”  "It may indeed be groundbreaking—but not for the reason Kessler believes. Contrary to popular myth, increased use of contraception is correlated to an increase in abortions. And despite what proponents claim, hormonal birth control has a damaging effect on both mental and physical health...Opill, like other forms of hormonal birth control, primarily consists of progestin, “a hormone that thickens mucus in the cervix to make it harder for sperm to enter the uterus,” according to the New York Times. Opill is said to be less effective than pills with both progestin and estrogen, yet defenders of the FDA’s decision say that Opill is still highly effective as long as it is taken at the same time every day."

The article makes the point, which everyone who studies this knows, that the pill actually increases nonmarital pregnancies, because the pill requires regular use, and the kind of people who are not disciplined enough to wait until marriage are often also not disciplined enough to take a pill every day. This version of the pill seems to require an extraordinary high level of discipline--it must be taken at the same time every day. "Unintended" pregnancies in the U.S. basically never occur because contraceptives aren't available, but because the couple does not use them properly.

The article also makes the point about the extensively documented link between the pill and depression, which I've blogged about before. It might have mentioned the link between the pill and blood clotting, which might be dangerous if the pill is taken over the counter and the user is not in touch with a doctor.

The article does not make a point that it easily could have, that this is a huge win for Big Pharma. Notice that it is the CEO who calls this "groundbreaking." I'm assuming the Biden administration will get its fair share of donations this cycle.

The article also does not discuss something that I think is relevant. Typical birth control pills are on the list of known carcinogens by the International Agency for Research for Canger (IARC), a project of the World Health Organization. They are in category 1, the same as tobacco. It's likely that the explosion in cases of breast cancer over the last 50 years is caused by increasingly widespread use of the hormones in the pill. The CDC says that using the pill increases a woman's chances of breast and cervical cancers by as much as 60%. As I wrote a few years ago, "It’s safer to smoke 5-8 cigars daily (relative risk of cancer 1.17; see Table 3)–which almost nobody does–than to be on the Pill (relative risk 1.24 for current users)." 

(The article does not say more about whether the reduced amount of estrogen is intended to make Opill less carcinogenic, but I can't imagine that we have sufficient data on this particular pill to determine this.)

The argument for having restrictions on tobacco sales is that tobacco causes cancer. The same argument should argue for at least the same restrictions on Opill. Defenders of the pill will point to studies that show the likelihood of cancer drops off once someone stops using the pill (as in the CDC link above); the likelihood of cancer also drops off once someone quits smoking cigarettes. Given these parallels, I would think that states would want to pass laws restricting over the counter sales of either carcinogen to minors.

The more people become aware that playing with the hormones in the body is not that safe, the more people will switch to using fertility awareness methods, which are natural and more in tune with the environment. But these natural methods don't make Big Pharma any money!

F.D.A. Approves First U.S. Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill - The New York Times

The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday approved a birth control pill to be sold without a prescription for the first time in the United States, a milestone that could significantly expand access to contraception.

The medication, called Opill, will become the most effective birth control method available over the counter — more effective at preventing pregnancy than condoms, spermicides and other nonprescription methods. Experts in reproductive health said its availability could be especially useful for young women, teenagers and those who have difficulty dealing with the time, costs or logistical hurdles involved in visiting a doctor to obtain a prescription.

The pill’s manufacturer, Perrigo Company, based in Dublin, said Opill would most likely become available from stores and online retailers in the United States in early 2024.

The company did not say how much the medication would cost — a key question that will help determine how many people will use the pill — but Frédérique Welgryn, Perrigo’s global vice president for women’s health, said in a statement that the company was committed to making the pill “accessible and affordable to women and people of all ages.” Ms. Welgryn has also said the company would have a consumer assistance program to provide the pill at no cost to some women.

I never thought, when I started the Alliance in 2019, we would be here today—with moderators from every major social media giant forming the first African moderators union. There have never been more of us. Our cause is right, our way is just, and we shall prevail. I couldn’t be more proud of today’s decision to register the Content Moderators Union.

Daniel Motaung quoted in a report by Billy Perrigo at Time Magazine. 150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi Meeting

If you want some good news, Perrigo's HRA pharma just submitted their FDA application to make the progestin-only birth control pill over the counter.

This would mean no more doctors visit or prescription necessary for the progestin-only OCP (usually called mini pill or opill). A company as big as Perrigo making this (which supplies Walmart, Walgreens, Target, CVS, etc,) will mean a widely available birth control option for the US.

I don't know how long the FDA approval process will take. It could be anywhere from within weeks to 10+ months. But hopefully, by this time next year, we will have progestin-only birth-control available over the counter at most drug stores.

[TITLE LEFT INTENTIONALLY BLANK]: Protesting in the People’s Republic

It is a universally known fact that the People’s Republic of China is perhaps not the most magnanimous to the freedom of speech of its citizens. In the past, we have seen China’s authoritarian government crack down on citizen protests by any means necessary: whether that be forced disappearances, disinformation, or rolling tanks into public squares. These past atrocities have cast a long shadow upon China’s recent history and social movements; many activist movements in China peter out due to state-sponsored efforts against them. However, with the recent anti-COVID measures protest stemming from the tragedy of a deadly fire in Urumqi, we may yet see a new paradigm through which protests spread in China: through social media savvy.

As discussed in Qin, Stromberg, and Wu (2019, pp.7-9), the centralised, controlled nature of Chinese social media actively stems the tide of protest; in either active or reactive ways, the Chinese government can respond to calls for protests that do spread on apps like Sina Weibo. However, the sheer speed of social media mitigates these issues to an extent: activists have leveraged them to spread movements and protest tactics far and wide across China. In the recent Urumqi protests, we have seen these tactics spread in real time. As Perrigo (2022) notes, protesters against the Zero-COVID regulations and fire in Urumqi have taken to displaying a blank sheet of paper to express their discontent: a move both symbolic of “everything protesters wish they could say but cannot” and practical as a move to “confound online censors” and gain a better chance for their message to come through amidst heavy censorship. In addition to this, to circumvent censors on the discussion of these protests and highlight the ridiculousness of Chinese censorship, Sina Weibo users have taken to simply posting affirmative characters or ‘censored’ black squares in support of these protests (Yu 2022).

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To an extent, the usage of these tactics on Sina Weibo and other social networking apps within the Great Firewall of China’s infrastructure has yielded results unprecedented in China’s recent history: Mao (2022) reports that China’s government has yielded on its strictest Covid policies and lifted lockdowns in major cities in the aftermath of these protests. The occurrence of these protests has also indicated major changes in China, especially with regards to its activist culture: as the online sphere grows more malleable, the CCP government faces issues in quelling general protests that can spread across broad swathes of its newly-protest-hungry society (Hurst 2022).

In essence, even amidst the immense centralisation and government control of China’s social media, activists have found methods through which their voices can be heard, and their actions mobilised to affect change in a system often cited for its risk of violent suppression of dissent.

References

Hurst, W 2022, “What the protests tell us about China's future,” Time, Time, viewed 8 December, 2022, <https://time.com/6238800/china-protests-reveal-about-the-country/>

Mao, F 2022, “China abandons key parts of zero-covid strategy after protests,” BBC News, BBC, viewed 8 December, 2022, <https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-63855508>

Perrigo, B 2022, “Why a blank sheet of paper became a protest symbol in China,” Time, Time, viewed 8 December, 2022, <https://time.com/6238050/china-protests-censorship-urumqi-a4/>

Qin, B., Strömberg, D. and Wu, Y., 2019. Social media, information networks, and protests in China. Work. Pap., Stockholm Univ., Stockholm, Swed.

Yu, C 2022, “China's zero-Covid Anger is erupting,” The Spectator, viewed 8 December, 2022, <https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/chinas-growing-anger-over-zero-covid/>