Alliance for Life is asking for a flood of letters and telegrams to go to Mr. Jake Epp, the Minister of Health, and to Dr. Ian Henderson, Director of the Human Prescription Drug Branch, protesting the move towards approving Depo-Provera as a contraceptive.
The long-term safety of the injectable drug has not yet been proved. Some studies have linked it with an increase in cancerous tumours in animals; other studies have found a risk of genital malformations in children conceived while the drug is still in the woman’s system.
Instead of approval of the drug for general contraceptive use, the government should be tightening the regulations to remove the legal loophole which allows the drug to be prescribed for handicapped young women.
Please write today:
The Honourable Jake Epp, M.P.
Minister of Health and Welfare
House of Commons
Ottawa, ON K1A 0Al
Also write to:
Dr. Ian Henderson
Director Human Prescription Drug Branch
Tunney’s Pasture
Ottawa, ON K1A 0L2
It would also be an excellent idea to tell your own MP of your views on this issue.
