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My Experience with an IUD PDF Print E-mail
Written by Cecilia Bram Anguiano   
Sunday, 09 February 1997 19:00

On August 30, 1995, I went to the Social Security Clinic No. 76 in Uruapan, Michoacan State. I was in labor with my last child. As my daughter was born, the gynecologist, a woman, told me that I should get an operation so I wouldn't have more children because they were too much and I answered that I wouldn't get the operation because I didn't want it. When I told her this she insisted, "Then what are you going to do in order to stop having children?" I answered, "maybe my husband will get a vasectomy." (I said this so she would stop insisting that I have the operation.) The gynecologist didn't say anymore and when they finished their work she told me, "Well, since you are not sure that your husband will get the operation (vasectomy) I have already inserted you with an IUD. You must return next month so we can check it out." I asked her, "Why did you put it in if I have told you not to do it?" They didn't answer. They didn't pay attention, just told me to return in a month. But I haven't returned to that clinic. That day I felt angry, disgusted, wanting someone's help because in the clinic they didn't respect my decision. I told them that I would plan my family with the NFP method and they paid not attention to this.