Friday, October 29, 2021

Confessions of a Victim of Big Pharma, by Shoshanna Silcove

 Diethylstilboestrol (DES) was a medication commonly prescribed to prevent miscarriage, between 1946 and 1971 in America. If your mother took DES while she was pregnant with you, then you are a DES daughter or DES son...' Better Health Channel
    

It was 1989. He loomed large and imposing, even as he sat behind his expensive oak desk, many medical degrees displayed on the walls around the room. "You will most likely never fall pregnant, but even if you do, you will not come to full term," explained the highly acclaimed fertility expert in a flat emotionless professionally polished monotone.

 A short time later I would discover, at age 31, that I was a victim of Big Pharma from before I was born. This victimisation gave me membership to an exclusive group of women known as DES daughters. This was a drug given to thousands of young women in America in the 1950's and 1960's that was supposed to prevent miscarriages. My mother had had a miscarriage after my older brother was born, so she was proscribed DES and took it when I was still in utero. 

 Upon discovering I was a DES daughter, I had many questions for my mother that I could not ask her because she passed away from cancer at the age of thirty three when I was only five years old. While correlation does not equal causation, one wonders if she would have lived much longer had she not taken the hormonal drug. Since the medical establishment would never investigate this possible causation we can never know for sure, however, I strongly surmise this to be the case.  I would learn that most of the thousands of DES daughters would never be able to have children. I met a woman in my community who was infertile from this drug and she successfully sued Big Pharma. 

Big Pharma was forced to admit culpability because DES was never properly tested before it was approved. Profits came before people, but unlike today, Big Pharma did not have the power to quell all legal liability as they do when it comes to the Covid19 drugs.

As a young woman I wanted and planned to have at least four children, or maybe more. One cannot describe the trauma I felt being told that I was most likely never going to become a mother.  However, I was blessed by G-d with an open miracle to have the one child I did have, as the vast majority of DES daughters have none. The difference between zero and one for a couple struggling with fertility is bigger than the universe. We would not be the proud grandparents we are today had we stayed at zero.

 Nevertheless, the impact all this had on my life and the lives of my family is incalculable. Psychologically the pain and hurt runs deep.  I can compare it to having been a rape victim, as I felt as if I was violated before I was even born. All these years I harbor a distrust of Big Pharma and its cohorts in the medical system which had failed me. It turns out this distrust has served me well because, I am fully aware and cognizant of the horrific harm Big Pharma and even many doctors are actually capable of inflicting on an unsuspecting public.

 The similarities between the DES saga and the present Covid vaccine debacle are strikingly numerous. An untested drug was used on thousands of unsuspecting people in an experimental trial that seemed initially to work in yielding its promised result in the short term, only to be revealed in later years as having caused irreparable and extensive damage to peoples'  health and lives. In the case of DES however, there was still a healthy skepticism of Big Pharma and, ultimately they would be held accountable. At that time Big Pharma did not yet have the power to control the governments of the world as they do now. This makes them a much more formidable and dangerous force, capable of inflicting great and horrific crimes against humanity on a mass scale. Like the DES debacle, in reference to the Covid  shmax drugs, we are yet to meaningfully grapple with or face  the huge onslaught of its detrimental effects to come in the not so far future. You have been warned!

    

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