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October 16, 2015 (LifeSiteNews) – Oral contraceptives may have contributed to the death of a 15-year-old UK girl last year, it was disclosed at a hearing into the child’s death this week.

Charlotte Lockwood, of Jubilee Close, Thetford in Norfolk, died August 17, 2014, according to the Eastern Daily Press, after she experienced cardiac arrest at a London hospital.

Coroner Johanna Thompson said at the inquest’s outset that Lockwood had been prescribed the birth control pill, also stating that doctors had thought the chemical contraceptive might have been a factor in the child’s death.

A preliminary exam gave Lockwood’s cause of death as severe hypoxic ischemic brain damage and cardiac arrest, with obesity also also cited as a causative factor.

Another hearing in Lockwood’s death is scheduled for December 15.

Dangerous side effects associated with the pill have been documented for decades, including blood clots, stroke, brain cancer, heart attack, brain shrinkage and increased risk of Crohn’s Disease, as well as loss of emotional memory. (hyperlinks below)

A recent study published in the journal MedLink Neurology showed that oral contraceptives produce a small but significant increase in the risk of ischemic stroke.

The study’s authors concluded that oral contraceptives raise the risk of stroke for anyone who uses them, but that the probability is greater for women when other risk factors are present, such that for those women it is best to avoid use of the pill.

Ischemic strokes account for 85 percent of all strokes, and are caused by blood clots.

More than 100 million women internationally use, or have used chemical contraceptives.