The Medical System Should Be Blamed For The Decline In Birth Control. Not Women.

my response to The Washington Post

I was 16 when I had a piece of my cervix cut out of my body, without anesthesia, as a treatment for HPV. It was the first time I was gaslit by a doctor. I was told the procedure would not be painful, and yet I can still remember how I left my body to cope with each incision. At 19, a cyst burst in my left ovary. While screaming for help in the ER, a gyn…