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CAMPAIGNERS’ MESSAGE TO PM TERRY AND ALISON’S 44-YEAR FIGHT MIMA’S STORY
BY JENNIFER HYLAND jennifer.hyland@dailyrecord.co.uk CAMPAIGNERS who claim hormone pregnancy tests damaged their children have written to the PM asking him to help them get justice after a 50-year wait.
The Record has led the way in reporting on those affected by Primodos, made by drug firm Schering and given to women from 1958-78 before it was taken off the market amid fears of a link to birth defects.
Marie Lyon, chairwoman of the Association for Children Damaged by Hormone Pregnancy Tests, tells Boris Johnson in the letter: “You are in a position to finally provide justice to the thousands of HEARTBROKEN Terry and Alison Shields told how they believe Primodos denied them a family after their daughter was stillborn in 1975. Alison, now 72 and living in Torryburn, Fife, said: “I would never have taken those tablets if I’d known there were risks to my unborn baby. “We now have no family and no grandchildren. That was taken away from us. We had only one chance. “We believe Primodos was responsible. There are too many unanswered questions. People deserve to know what happened to their babies.” MIMA Anderson’s daughter was born without her forearms.
At three weeks old in 1966, doctors said Jemima wouldn’t survive.
Miraculously, she pulled through but died from her health problems aged just 16.
When Jemima was a child, Mima was approached by a policeman who mentioned fears over hormone pregnancy drugs.
Mima, now 72, of Stevenston, Ayrshire, said: “There were many more women, like me, who had children born with abnormalities.”