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In 1980, her first child was born prematurely and them pay, make them accountable and show other women that question in a three-year
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survived only four days. During her second pregnancy, _ this is how we're going to make sure they never do things § study into what factors affect
she miscarried after three months and her third like this again.” gait and-balance in the elder-
i : facturer, A.H. Robins Co. Inc., based in Richmond, Va. not helping anyone else by ‘sharing the information I
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It was withdrawn from the North American market in quarterly reports from their lawyers, but before she & great fear of falling,” says
1974 after its use was linked to miscarriages, infertility, knew it, years had gone by and she was no closer to Dr. David Hogan, as assi#-

pelvic inflammatory disease and even the death of women her goal tant professor of medicine at
and their babies. ar I had done was stress myself and my family § the Halifax university. “Fear

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which flares up from time to time. court, most suits against Robins were put on hold by the
CHILD PREMATURE company’s 1985 bid for protection from creditors. Ina *
She finally succeeded in giving birth to a premature further complication, the firm wants to merge with Rorer chap | ain

daughter, now aged two. But she had to take drugs to Group Inc., a move that would make Rorer the sixth-
largest retail drug company in the United States if

prevent labor and had to remain in bed for six months.
“Tm just horrified at the way (the Dalkon Shield creditors and claimants approve it. honored
Arun del hasn't taken any legal action because she

cosntroversy) has been handled, the way everybody (who
suffered) is swept under the rug,” says Arundel. missed a court-imposed deadline of April 80, 1986, for EDMONTON (CP) — Most
But after hearing the horror stories of others, she Canadian women to file claims. , of Ray Smith’s friends are in
realizes it could have been much worse. No doctor has linked Arundel’s medical problems 2 i,i), and he's proud of it.
Elaine Cumley, a redheaded Texan now living in With use of the Dalkon Shield. The gentle, soft-spoken
neouver, says she almost died because of a I did hear that A.H. Robins was being sued by & saivation Army major has
ntovine infection she developed while using the Women and I did know that I'd had a lot of pain, but I & “heen friend, counsellor and
: never made a connection between that and what later E civevman to hundreds. of
“Tt felt like a nuclear bomb had gone off inside of bPpefted to me,” she says. prisoners in his 24 years at
me,” says Cumley, 37. Cum! one of the first to take legal action in = the Fort Saskatchewan Cor-
BLAMED DEVICE 1975 at the urging of her husband even though she =  ,ctional Institute.
She was only 25 where her uterus, ovaries and thought it was of little use. In ition of his .
Fallopian tubes were removed because of the infection, “I didn't see what difference it was going to make.” smith noneetion of Bi wee ais eileen es ee
which doctors said was caused by the Dalkon Shield. she says. “I mean, I'm injured, I'm empty, I'm hollow. T of the Order of Canada at the
“J was told by the doctor that (without the surgery) I had nights of sereaming pain and couldn't even walk & ood of October. Our Action Ad Phone
would not have lived the next day, and it was an accident across the room because of the infection. And nothing ‘The honor caught him by
_-I'm alive,” she says. “The pelvic inflammatory disease was going to make me whole again.” surprise. Number i is 3 65- 22 12

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