The IUD, perhaps the most effective form of birth control to date, has been rising in popularity in recent years, and the appeal has been heightened in the US’s new post-Roe reality.

Women must also contend with the “Gender Pain Gap” in which female pain is medically and societally minimized and under-researched. The IUD insertion procedure may be a prime example of the silencing of extreme pain that has gone under the radar for too long.