Thanks for the link! “Strangulation of the womb” feels like a fitting label to me.

I recently was faculty at a top 5 research institution in the Midwest and needed an iud for the same reason. I was told they weren’t “in stock” for 8 months—I inquired every month while suffering so badly. I also was going to freeze my eggs in my gyn’s recommendation (I was 35 and single) and was DENIED egg freezing…

Me: I am in so much pain I think I might actually be going crazy.

I imagine they got addicted to patent medicines that were full of laudanum. It must have been Hell out on the prairie suffering from it. I imagine women working through an opioid haze.

I imagine that could be confusing if you didn’t know that asshat “Pro-Life” twit was constantly working against the best interests of his interests...

Forgot to add I couldn’t take birth control pills (which was the only option at the time) because I had breast cancer at the age of 30. So, many of us just suffered - friends and family didn’t get it cause they didn’t experience anything like that so how it could be so bad for someone else? It’s really miserable and…

You don’t have to go all the way back to 1856 to wonder what women did - there was no IUD available for me many years ago when I first started struggling with endometriosis. So, I suffered and ate Advil like it was M&Ms (and got an ulcer from that) and had 4 different surgeries over a 20 year span because it just got…

If you’d like to know more about the history of “women’s troubles.” Do I have an article for you!

Holy fuck. As Sheesh said, congrats on not assaulting him. I don’t think I would have been able to control myself. What a fucking asshole.

Um, this article is about the issue in NY State so redirect that tweet to state senator Diane Savino. She’s actually a reasonable person and I am disappointed that she’s in the IDC.

I also have endometriosis, and the spasms of pain are beyond anything I could explain. My life literally changed when my ob/gyn prescribed my birth control pill so I could be on it non-stop, something I hadn’t even known was possible, and luckily for now my insurance is covering the extra pills I need each month. I am…

Against women having sex, specifically. It’s an anti-woman movement, not a pro-life movement.

Congrats on not assaulting him. What an ass.

Shared on FB and tweeted to that asshat Rubio - who’s still obsessing over Ivanka today.

And that’s how we know that forced-birthers are not actually interested in preventing abortions. They should be shelling out into free birth control pools in every state, right now.

I’m always curious to what women did before. Endometriosis has probably been around for a long time so what did women in 1856 do? What horrible thing did doctors recommend? If you were bleeding heavily for two weeks out of each month and pain meds were unreliable and/or based on the heroin family, what could they do?…

I don’t have endometriosis but I too experience crippling pain during my period unless I micro-manage it like a damn pageant mom. If my government (not the US) were to take away my means to manage it I would have to take sick days nearly every month. A few months ago I messed up with my BC (first time in almost 10…

I can relate to your period issues, though I don’t have endometriosis. Giant pools of blood everywhere, the feeling of your whole body screaming as you cramp up on the toilet and can’t move.

But even if birth control is being used solely as contraception, if your stance is “pro-life,” you should be pro-birth control access.