serial_crusher: So, the placebo ones are usually a different color, right?  Shouldn't anybody who got them realize something fishy was up when they saw twice as many of those?

I don't know about BCPs for reasons of maleness.  But, I take one maintenance med. It's an off-patent drug, I'm okay with generics, and I'm supposed to use a mail-order pharmacy for highest insurance coverage.  As a result, the last four order of it I've gotten, all four bottles were from different makers, different colors, shapes, and sizes.  For the exact same prescription.

"This is different" isn't quite that cut-and-dried.

Botched batch of Alysena-28 was distributed in all provinces except Alberta and Saskatchewan

Let's just call it Harper's plan for the 2031 elections.

So wholesalers were told about the recall but not the women actually taking the pill?  Nice.

You've been prescribed with babby