The idea that there is no proof linking hormone pregnancy tests to birth defects in babies is deemed “factually and morally wrong” by members of parliament.
In a report on hormone pregnancy tests, the All-Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) asserts that there is a possibility to “piece together a case that could reveal one of the biggest medical frauds of the 20th century” and that evidence was “covered up”.
Between the 1950s and the 1970s, hormone pregnancy tests were administered to about 1.5 million women in Britain.
Their GPs advised them to take the medication in order to determine whether or not they were pregnant.
However, authorities in the UK withdrew Primodos from the market in the late 1970s when “an association was confirmed” between the medication and birth abnormalities.
An expert working group concluded in 2017 that there was not enough data to support a causal relationship.
