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Despite claims by ‘doctors
at .the Harvard School of

Public Health that there is no}
link between the birth control }

pill ; and major malformations:
in newborn infants, research-
ers.there say that a woman |

who conceives less than a

month after giving up. birth

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control pills may be threaten- f=... :

ing her baby with a slightly |
increased risk of minor birth:

defects.

“We think it would be

reasonable to conclude that
there are no large risks of
malformation facing off-
spring born after oral contra-
ceptive use,’’ the research-
ers say in an article
published in the New Eng-
land Journal of Medicine.

‘Even for those conceived
within one month of oral
contraceptive use, the overall
malformation rate was only
slightly greater than that. in
the non-exposed group, and
the greater rate could be

explained by chance vari-
ation.”’

The study. onpanéel the

birth records of 5,535 babies
of birth control users with
those of 2,188 infants whose
mothers had never taken the
Pill. Birth defects were found |
among 4.3 per cent of’ the
infants of women. who had
‘stopped taking oral contra-
ceptives less than a month,
before conception, compared
to 3.3 per cent of the infants
of non-Pill users and 3,6 per

cent of those of mothers who |
had given up the birth:

control pill for more than a
month.

The defects of pill users’
children were generally
minor. Major defects were
proportionally the same in
both groups — approximate-
ly 0.5 per cent of all babies.

The incidence of unde-

scended testes occured 1.9.

times more ‘often in infants:
whose mothers had. taken the.
Pill’ within a ‘month | of
conception, The: researchers
said, however, that this could
probably be accounted for by ,
sampling variability.

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