Interviewed in the film are the surviving parents and family members of women who died from blood clots linked specifically to Yaz, Yazmin, and Nuva Ring. Five seconds!”īetween three and four hundred women die every year from hormonal birth control. What’s a blood clot? You don’t understand that this little something that starts in your calf muscle can shoot up to your heart and kill you in five seconds.
“If you’ve talked to most women and talk about a blood clot, it doesn’t even sound that serious. “If you look at how many women die every year, it’s like about two airplanes, like two 737s going down,” Epstein said. It is this point where the film’s stakes are highest because the blood clots linked to hormonal birth control can be and have been deadly. In reality, the side effects of hormonal birth control include anxiety and depression, clitoral shrinkage, painful sex, blood clots and more. A supposed cure all for everything from heavy menstrual cycles to PMS, acne to anxiety. The film notes that birth control is pushed as a lifestyle drug with 35 percent of women being prescribed the pill for non-contraceptive reasons. It is no longer solely advertised for preventing pregnancy. Since 1960 the birth control market has become a multi-billion dollar business. CDC records show nearly 65 percent of women in the United States use some form of birth control. With the release of the pill women were able to take back that control. The 90 minute film begins by explaining that in the before times only married women could get a diaphragm and only with the consent of their husbands. “I read her book on a plane, flying out to Ricki’s house in LA and it was just light bulbs going off the whole book and I was like, “Holy sh-, like this story hasn’t been told,” Epstein said. documentary came when she received an advanced copy of Holly Grigg-Spall’s 2013 book Sweetening The Pill: Or How We Got Hooked on Hormonal Birth Control. She said the spark to pursue the second The Business Of. SheKnows spoke with Epstein days before the streaming release of the film. and Canada, explores the history of of birth control from its eugenicist beginnings, the well documented side effects of anxiety, depression, and death, as well as how holistic feminism and reproductive justice movements demand more than just access to abortion and contraception. The team behind 2008s The Business of Being Born is back with The Business of Birth Control. These are the stakes laid out in a new documentary film from director Abby Epstein and executive producer Ricki Lake.
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