Patriot Brief
What Happened: More than 2,100 women across the U.S. are suing Pfizer, alleging its Depo Provera birth control injection caused debilitating brain tumors.
Why It Matters: Plaintiffs claim Pfizer failed to warn women despite growing evidence linking the drug to a significantly increased risk of meningiomas.
Bottom Line: Pfizer is set to face trial in December 2026 as lawsuits continue to surge nationwide and internationally.
This is the kind of story that makes women furious and Big Pharma nervous. For decades, millions of women were told a popular birth control injection was safe, convenient, and reliable. Now thousands are alleging that same shot left them with life changing brain tumors, and that the warnings came far too late. Pfizer insists the product belongs on the market, but juries are about to hear whether women were knowingly kept in the dark while their health was put at risk.
Daily Mail reports:
Lawyers told the Daily Mail exclusively that Pfizer will have to stand trial on December 7, 2026, as more than 2,100 women across the US claim in publicly filed lawsuits that they were not warned that the birth control shot Depo-Provera had been linked to debilitating and potentially incurable, benign brain tumors.
Last month, Pfizer added a warning label to Depo-Provera about the risk of meningiomas, benign tumors that can grow in the brain and spine for decades undetected. Though they are benign, meaning they are not cancerous, they can still lead to blindness, seizures and memory loss.
Virginia Buchanan, partner at law firm Levin Papantonio, which filed a purported class-action lawsuit against Pfizer last year, told the Daily Mail that the new label “has been a long time coming” and is “long overdue.”
“It's a critical women's health issue since birth control is something that millions of women rely upon for making their family planning decisions, and it's critical to have something that is safe,” she said.
The number of women signing on to sue Pfizer has surged five-fold since May, and Buchanan estimates more are expected to come forward.
For women who trusted the system, this is not about politics or profit margins, it is about accountability. As these cases head to court, the question is no longer whether women deserved the truth, but why it took thousands of lawsuits for that truth to finally surface.
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