
The Intrauterine device (IUD) is going mainstream, and stories about its resurgence are everywhere. But that doesn’t necessarily make them easy to get.The IUD, if you’re not familiar, is a T-shaped birth control device that is implanted into the uterus, and they’ve been embraced largely because of their success rates and reversibility.About 30,000 IUDs were funded in Colorado in the past couple of years to provide lower income young women with long-term contraception. The result? A 40 percent drop in teen pregnancies between 2009 and 2013. They’re also the preferred method of contraception for family planning providers. This is an interesting little factoid for me because when I tried to procure one, the doctor at the clinic I went to (which specializes in birth control, by the way) looked at me like I’d asked her to insert a hamster into my uterus. She then fear-mongered me out of it by jacking up my anxiety, and tried to peddle either the pill, or the Mirena, a hormonal IUD.
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