Online Di-ethyl-stilbestrol Awareness Australia (ODESAA), is the newest recruit to the Surplus Lab Rats human rights advocacy groups. ODESAA has been developed as an online research and support hub addressing the medical implications resulting from the use Di-ethyl-stilbestrol (Stilbestrol) during the adoption process in Australia in the late 1960's and early 1970's. The drug was administered, in reportedly high doses, to prevent lactation in unmarried mothers; their babies forcibly removed for adoption.
"...Stilbestrol is an endocrine disrupter known to contain many harmful chemicals responsible for a number of reproductive abnormalities in 1:1000 of the children born to the women who were administered the drug."
This research came as a result of the same drug being the focus of an earlier controversy when it was given to women back in the 1940s and 1950s to lower the risk of miscarriage. It was later found to have had no effect at all upon miscarriage risk. It did, however, cause a number of embryological abnormalities in the children of the women who took the hormone over that time period.
ODESAA will source and provide the latest research and information available regarding the medical implications in Australia due to the use of Stilbestrol during the adoption process.
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