Women who got pregnant while on the Pill sue Endo Pharmaceuticals and other companies over mislabeled birth control

But we were on the Pill!

More than 100 women who got pregnant after taking poorly labeled birth control pills want the drug manufacturer to compensate them for lost income, medical costs and, in some cases, the cost of raising their children entirely.

 

All but four of the 117 women who filed a suit last week in Philadelphia became pregnant after taking birth control pills that were part of a recall in 2011 stemming from some packages being mislabeled to have the women take the pills out of sequence.

The suit is against Endo Pharmaceuticals and other companies that made or distributed the pills under such brand names as Cyclafem, Emoquette, Gildess, Orsythia, Previfem.

A spokeswoman at Endo did not return a call from the Associated Press.

Days earlier, a federal judge in a similar suit in Georgia ruled against the plaintiffs, citing that only 53 of the half-million recalled packs had the pill order mislabeled.

"It is not enough that each class member prove that defendants sold a defective product," U.S. District Judge Steve Jones wrote. "Each plaintiff must show in an individualized manner which 'physical symptoms' she suffered, her medical history, and whether her use of any allegedly defective product resulted in these physical symptoms or a pregnancy."

Each packet of birth control contains 28 days' worth of pills, with 21 containing hormones that prevent pregnancy and seven placebos pills. Women are supposed to take the pills in order. The pills are normally color-coded to note the difference.

Laws in some states dp allow women to sue over the cost of raising a child to age 18, according to lawyer Keith Bodoh of Marietta, Georgia, who filed the Philadelphia lawsuit.