{"id":2442387,"date":"2025-06-03T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/women-sue-over-birth-control-shot-linked-to-brain-tumors\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T16:10:46","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T20:10:46","slug":"women-sue-over-birth-control-shot-linked-to-brain-tumors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/women-sue-over-birth-control-shot-linked-to-brain-tumors\/","title":{"rendered":"Women Sue Over Birth Control Shot Linked To Brain Tumors"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fwomen-sue-over-birth-control-shot-linked-to-brain-tumors%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2442387&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The article discusses concerns surrounding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/anti-israel-rhetoric-common-in-philly-schools-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"Anti-Israel rhetoric common in Philly schools- Washington Examiner\">birth control shot<\/a> Depo-Provera, which has faced scrutiny due to allegations linking it to serious health risks, including a significantly increased risk of meningioma (a type of brain tumor). Despite being marketed as a safe and effective contraceptive since its introduction in the 1950s, the drug&#8217;s approval history reflects serious safety concerns, leading to its initial rejection for broader marketing by the FDA due to cancer risks and delays in disclosing warnings about potential side effects.<\/p>\n<p>Recent studies have heightened concerns, indicating a 500% greater risk of developing meningiomas in women who used Depo-Provera. This has led to near 300 lawsuits from women claiming they were not adequately informed about the risks associated with the drug. Similar warnings about brain and spine tumors are issued for users in Europe and Canada, but not for those in the U.S.<\/p>\n<p>Amid rising awareness of the negative side effects of hormonal contraceptives, more women are opting for natural birth control methods. The article emphasizes the need for transparency regarding the potential risks of birth control products, highlighting that women should have access to thorough details about their health choices.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Corporate media often <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >smear birth control skeptics<\/a> for believing <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/25\/washington-post-bashes-women-for-disliking-birth-control-side-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;misinformation&rdquo;<\/a> about the harms synthetic hormones can have on <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2024\/03\/28\/dont-read-this-birth-control-misinformation-unless-you-want-to-be-twice-as-happy-as-you-are-now\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">women&rsquo;s bodies and minds<\/a>. A flurry of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsuit-information-center.com\/depo-provera-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">nearly 300 lawsuits<\/a> from females alleging that the popular &ldquo;safe and effective&rdquo; birth control shot Depo-Provera played a role in their development of brain and spine tumors, however, suggests women should question the effects of any drug sold to them &mdash; especially those designed to prevent pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>Upjohn Company, one of Pfizer&rsquo;s acquisitions, debuted the birth control shot in the 1950s. Upon injection, the synthetic progestoerone cocktail is supposed to suppress ovulation and prevent pregnancy in women for up to three months at a time.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Food and Drug Administration initially approved the drug for limited contraceptive use in 1974. Widespread concern about cancer risks, however, forced the FDA to deny it a <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC6434643\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;general marketing licence&rdquo;<\/a> just four years later in 1978. <\/p>\n<p>By 1992, however, the FDA had rubber-stamped Depo-Provera, which was increasingly prescribed to women off-label as birth control under the condition that its manufacturer would conduct &ldquo;post-market studies of the risk of osteoporosis.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t until years after that Depo-Provera&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.accessdata.fda.gov\/drugsatfda_docs\/label\/2010\/020246s036lbl.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">official label<\/a> would disclose a warning about &ldquo;loss of bone mineral density&rdquo; and recommend less than two years&rsquo; use. <\/p>\n<div>\n<figure><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>There is also evidence that Depo-Provera may cause side effects such as <a href=\"https:\/\/my.clevelandclinic.org\/health\/drugs\/4086-depo-provera-birth-control-shot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">weight gain, bleeding, bloating, headaches, and depression<\/a>; <a href=\"https:\/\/pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/articles\/PMC10894078\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">appears to cause varying and increasing likelihood of breast cancer<\/a>; and &ldquo;sometimes has an abortifacient effect,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hli.org\/resources\/depo-provera-banned\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according<\/a> to pro-life activists.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the shot was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/1997\/07\/09\/business\/tv-commercials-for-depo-provera.html#:~:text=*Does%20not%20include%20Crossword%2Donly,for%20the%20three%2Dweek%20campaign.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">marketed for decades<\/a> to women as an affordable, low-maintenance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/learn\/birth-control\/birth-control-shot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">&ldquo;safe and convenient&rdquo;<\/a> way to keep their pregnancy chances low without sacrificing their sex lives. The injection&rsquo;s makers particularly focused on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/health-30026001#:~:text=It%20is%20an%20injection%20%2D%20but,of%20the%20world's%20poorest%20countries.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">selling<\/a> the drug to <a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/6452287\/#:~:text=Although%20banned%20as%20a%20contraceptive,use%20in%20the%203rd%20World.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">low-income women across the globe<\/a>. From 2015 to 2019, approximately 24.5 percent of sexually active women between <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nhsr\/nhsr195.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">15 and 49 years old<\/a> received at least one Depo-Provera injection.<\/p>\n<h2>Untold Tumor Risk<\/h2>\n<p>It wasn&rsquo;t until a landmark study published in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bmj.com\/content\/384\/bmj-2023-078078\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">British Medical Journal in March 2024<\/a> found that women who took Depo-Provera had a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdlinx.com\/article\/lawsuits-allege-us-women-were-left-in-the-dark-about-their-birth-controls-link-to-brain-tumors\/oPdNPIuaDP9ZZemh8QhbY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">500 percent<\/a> higher risk of developing a meningioma  (a tumor that specifically forms and develops in the membranes around the brain and spinal cord) than women who did not get the shot that women across the world realized the connection.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/388636796_Use_of_Medroxyprogesterone_Acetate_and_Risk_of_Meningiomas_A_Comparative_Safety_Study\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">February 2025 study<\/a> purported to confirm that the chemical compound that makes up Depo-Provera increases the risk of meningioma in women who take it. <\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;We believe the results of this study further warrants the need to alert women about this serious, albeit rare adverse event,&rdquo; the study&rsquo;s authors concluded.<\/p>\n<p>The studies sparked hundreds of lawsuits from women who had suffered seemingly random cranial complications that they later discovered may have been caused by their birth control injections.<\/p>\n<p>Pfizer lists brain and spine tumors as a potential side effect to its Depo-Provera customers in Europe, and it has done so in Canada since at least <a href=\"https:\/\/www.drug-injury.com\/druginjurycom\/2025\/01\/depo-provera-drug-label-warnings-in-us-do-not-include-increased-risk-of-intracranial-meningioma.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2015<\/a>. Their contraception consumers in the United States, however, were not made aware of the meningioma risk associated with the injection.<\/p>\n<p>Most of the reported meningiomas were benign, but their proximity to sensitive organs such as the brain and spinal cord proved to be problematic for some women <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/9J6aC#selection-1161.0-1161.26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">who experienced <\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsuit-information-center.com\/depo-provera-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">headaches, weakness, fatigue, vision loss<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anapolweiss.com\/blog\/tumors-may-be-among-the-side-effects-of-depo-provera-use-how-to-file-a-lawsuit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">hearing loss<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nrsinjurylaw.com\/blog\/2025\/01\/depo-provera-dangerous-side-effects\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">aphasia<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lawsuit-information-center.com\/depo-provera-lawsuit.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">seizures, and more.<\/a> The lawsuits suggest some women required various drugs or <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.is\/9J6aC#selection-1161.0-1161.26\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">radiation<\/a> to shrink the tumors, craniotomies to remove them, or both.<\/p>\n<p>The increasing number of women seeking legal recourse for Pfizer&rsquo;s alleged failure to warn about  complications of Depo-Provera eventually forced a consolidation into a multidistrict litigation (MDL) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flnd.uscourts.gov\/depo-provera-products-liability-litigation-mdl-no-3140\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">in the Northern District of Florida in February<\/a>, which is ongoing. <\/p>\n<p>The lawyers involved in the MDL have publicly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.morrisjames.com\/p\/102k21l\/meningioma-and-birth-control-lawsuits-the-case-against-depo-provera\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">expressed<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/DGBr0L3pSiE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">confidence<\/a> that their plaintiffs will secure accountability and potentially even compensation for the Depo-Provera fallout. The damage for many of those women, however, was done the moment they were told taking a synthetic hormone was safe, effective, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.plannedparenthood.org\/learn\/birth-control\/birth-control-shot\/what-are-the-benefits-of-the-birth-control-shot\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">potentially even beneficial<\/a> for them.<\/p>\n<h2>The Fine Print<\/h2>\n<p>Women are increasingly ditching hormonal birth control for natural alternatives such as tracking their cycles or abstaining from sex altogether.<\/p>\n<p>They&rsquo;ve seen over the last 60 or so years how the pills sold to them (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/databriefs\/db388-H.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">often at a young age<\/a>) as a miracle pregnancy prevention tool or wonder fix for period pains, stubborn acne, mood swings, and classic puberty symptoms have <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ox.ac.uk\/news\/2023-03-22-any-type-hormonal-contraceptive-may-increase-risk-breast-cancer-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the potential to cause cancer<\/a> and other bodily harms that sometimes last a lifetime.<\/p>\n<p>Not to mention the long list of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/washington-post-bashes-women-for-disliking-birth-control-side-effects\/\" title=\"Washington Post Criticizes Women Who Express Discomfort with ... ...\">birth control side effects<\/a> that have the potential to plague women daily, including&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mayoclinic.org\/tests-procedures\/combination-birth-control-pills\/about\/pac-20385282\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">bleeding, headaches, weight gain, nausea, increased blood pressure, breast tenderness, low libido, acne, mood swings, heightened stroke and heart attack risk, blood clots, liver disorders,<\/a>&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/sex\/birth-control\/birth-control-side-effects-risks\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">depression, ovarian cysts, pelvic pain, and more<\/a>, along with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC6193788\/#:~:text=In%20a%20recent%20study%20in,triples%20the%20risk%20of%20suicide.\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">increased risk of suicide<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Yet the conversation about the decision to ditch contraception is laden with dishonesty, deception, and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/BritHugoboom\/status\/1771895075661848695?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">even censorship<\/a> fueled by pharmaceutical companies and corporate media. If the Depo-Provera fallout proves anything, it&rsquo;s that women should be privy to more information and discussion about the effects birth control will have on their physical, mental, and spiritual health, not less.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Corporate media often discredit birth control skeptics, but nearly 300 lawsuits from women claiming Depo-Provera caused brain and spine tumors raise concerns about the drug&#8217;s safety<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":490,"featured_media":2442388,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Untitled-design-3.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546],"tags":[39963,56471,39993,4585,5605],"class_list":["post-2442387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-federalist","tag-birth-control","tag-brain-tumors","tag-health-risks","tag-lawsuit","tag-women"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Untitled-design-3.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/490"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442387"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2442391,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442387\/revisions\/2442391"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2442388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}