Well understood now, yes, but Yaz was heavily marketed to young women as being the latest and greatest thing on the market, and it passed FDA approval and came from major manufacturers -- yet it didn't get pulled off the shelves until 2011, after many deaths and strokes.

I support women having easier access to birth control, but my point is that even today, this stuff has a different safety profile than, like, Pepto Bismol or Advil.

(But then again, so does Tylenol, and that's legal, so...)