Contraceptive RiskThe story of Depo Provera joins the national struggle over the drug's FDA approval to the state legal issues raised by its contraceptive and criminal justice uses. Depo Provera is known as an injectable hormonal birth control method, but few are familiar with its dark and complicated history. Depo Provera was tested on women since the mid 1960s without their informed consent until it was FDA approved in 1992, but never FDA approved as chemical