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Maybe this is the kind of thing that will get the birth control industry off its butt to start developing new nonhormonal forms of contraception
More likely, it's the kind of thing that will make more companies drop their birth control research programs for fear of being sued.
Ortho McNeil should have been more forthcoming with their information about the patch. But no birth control method is 100% without risk (all drugs have risks), and expecting BC to be risk free just means that a method that could be useful to many women will probably be removed from the market, just like Norplant was. And the next company that thinks about investing in research into birth control will probably think twice.
