Comments on: Whoops! Anti-Choice Nurse “Accidentally” Pulls Out Women’s IUDs

By: alicia

alicia — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 23:16:58 +0000

i just came from my ob doc. during a fairly routine appointment that felt a little more uncomfortable than usually, she “accidentally” removed my IUD stating that it must have “shifted” and that is why it came out so easily. the whole thing seemed odd.

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 08:55:29 +0000

Omg >_< That’s horrible. Not only is that assault, but IUDs are expensive.

By: melrn

melrn — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 21:33:03 +0000

I am a nurse and can attest to the fact that medical devices are pulled out accidentally and on purpose. The act should be reported, if the person really feels she was violated, to both the board of nursing and the police. At that time the bashing should stop……….innocent until proven guilty….right? Give the nurse a chance to tell her side of the story. And…………..pro-life and anti-choice are 2 totally different catagories. I am prolife—meaning i believe we have a choice until the egg is fertilized. I have never been put in a position to have to impose my beliefs on any patient…….ever…..by my choice.

By: Ashleigh

Ashleigh — Fri, 23 Jan 2009 05:58:30 +0000

I got a mirena without having kids, although at a subsequent ER visit the nurse just assumed I had some, and without being measured. And the doctor got it out with just a speculum and her fingers pulling the string. The speculum hurt way more than the removal.

Alas, my previously pretty-good gynecologist handled everything non-medical at that visit extremely poorly and I will never go back to her. But that’s not the IUD’s fault.

By: Cara

Cara — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 16:16:36 +0000

Whoa. My sincere apologies to anyone who saw Killachristian Forcristssake’s comment, and especially anyone who may have been triggered by it, before I got to it and deleted it.

Suggesting that rape or other sexual violence is an appropriate punishment for anything is not allowed on this blog.

By: lauredhel

lauredhel — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 14:52:52 +0000

Elizabeth, I’m really sorry that your doctor tried to blame you for your pregnancy problems. Routine IUD removal does not require dilation or any other special prep at all. It is done just as you did it – by gentle, sustained traction (preferably during a period, but it can be done at other times). It is a much quicker and simpler procedure than IUD insertion, taking only a few seconds once the speculum is in place. It really requires no special skill at all, except to stop if it’s very painful or not happening readily, which I’m assuming you would have done.

The only time dilation is needed is if there has been a complication such as string retraction, uterine wall embedding or perforation, or if the strings have been cut right off (sometimes deliberately done for purposes such as concealing contraception).

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 13:49:59 +0000

I removed my own IUD in the early 1970s because having hideous cramping with my period. I too, tugged “gently” and out it came. Okay – so that was good, because the pain did stop with the IUD out. Two years later, however, I lost a planned pregnancy due to “incompetent cervix” and eventually had to have surgical repair of my cervix to keep from losing a later pregnancy. I was told by my OB that as the cervix has to be dilated to put the IUD device IN, so should it be dilated to take an IUD device OUT and my “incompetent cervix” was self-induced. At least I didn’t have to blame someone else, unlike the New Mexico woman.

By: Brian

Brian — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 07:55:48 +0000

According to NARAL (http://www.prochoiceamerica.org/choice-action-center/in_your_state/who-decides/state-profiles/new-mexico.html?templateName=lawdetails&issueID=14&ssumID=2737), New Mexico law states that a health care provider can refuse to treat a patient based on moral objections provided that he or she informs the patient of this decision promptly and attempts to get assistance from someone willing to treat the patient. Assuming this is the case, this nurse would not be covered by a conscience rule since she pulled out the IUD before objecting.

Sorry for the long url. For some reason, I was having trouble making a link.

By: Dogtanian

Dogtanian — Thu, 22 Jan 2009 03:15:29 +0000

What a wicked women!

If it was a Mirena device they certainly don’t fall out by themselves and it is absolutely excruciating. A standard IUD is slightly less painful, but it’s still not pleasant. Plus the fact she will have to have had it reinserted which is always painful.

This “nurse” should be barred from practice and jailed for assault.

My uterus is wincing now.

By: flightless

flightless — Wed, 21 Jan 2009 17:26:31 +0000

EVIL! I’ve had an IUD removed; it hurt really a lot, and I nearly fainted afterward. This nurse is a violent criminal.