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Nearly 15 years after their seminal documentary “The Business of Being Born” examined the birth experience in Western medicine, filmmakers Ricki Lake and Abby Epstein are reuniting to t…

, is described as a fearless look at the movement to reexamine “the pill,” as younger generations of women start weighing drastic side effects and more nebulous consequences of taking “the same drugs our grandmothers did,” according to Lake.

“This work has been so rewarding for me, to educate and empower women with information. I’m a lay person, I’m not a doctor or an expert,” said Lake. “Thank god the pill was invented for women to have autonomy over their bodies and careers, but we’re still looking at that same medication from years ago. I suffered significant hair loss and I attribute that mostly to the hormonal effects of the birth control I used for decades.

 

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