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The intrauterine device (IUD) allows users to "forget" about contraception, but this detachment from reproductive awareness clashes with efforts to visualize the reproductive body. This creates a dilemma of convenience versus certainty in fertility control.

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  • Medical History
  • Feminist Health Studies

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  • Historical efforts to visualize and narrate the reproductive body have impacted reproductive autonomy.
  • The intrauterine device (IUD) offers a contraceptive method promoting user "forgetting" of the device.
  • This "forgetting" contrasts with historical and feminist insistence on understanding and controlling the reproductive body.

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  • To analyze how this "forgetting" intersects with political circumstances affecting birth control access.
  • To explore the dilemma created by accepting limited knowledge of one's reproductive state.

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  • Narrative examination of how contraceptive use is framed and experienced.
  • Feminist critique of medical and political control over reproductive health.

    • Main Results:

    • The "forgetting" associated with IUDs challenges the project of making the reproductive body legible.
    • This detachment exposes the acute pain of shifting political landscapes influencing birth control access.
    • Choosing not to "read" the reproductive body offers freedom from daily worry but sacrifices certainty over fertility.

    Conclusions:

    • The IUD's "forgetting" mechanism creates a complex user experience, balancing convenience against reproductive awareness.
    • This approach highlights the broader socio-political context influencing access to and understanding of reproductive health.
    • The study underscores the inherent dilemma of limited knowledge in managing fertility and reproductive autonomy.