Anti-choice nurse removes women’s IUDs “accidently”

A nurse in New Mexico is being sued after removing a woman’s IUD without her permission and then refusing to put it back in. Why? Well this is what nurse Sylvia Olona told her patient:

“Having the IUD come out was a good thing [because] I personally do not like IUDs. I feel they are a type of abortion. I don’t know how you feel about abortion, but I am against them. …What the IUD does is take the fertilized egg and pushes it out of the uterus.”

Lovely. And apparently, this isn’t the first time Nurse Olona violated women’s rights and bodily integrity:

“Everyone in the office always laughs and tells me I pull these out on purpose because I am against them, but it’s not true, they accidentally come out when I tug.”

Yeah, sure they do. Olona’s former patient is suing for battery, constitutional violations and negligence.
Via Feministe.

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