She was the single mother who took on corporate America and won.
Julia Roberts played her in the Hollywood version of her life’s work.
Now Erin Brockovich is working to raise awareness about what she considers a dangerous method of permanent birth control — Essure.
Essure is a quick, non-surgical, permanent method of sterilising women. The procedure involves inserting tiny coils into the fallopian tubes to block sperm from reaching eggs. It has been hailed as an affordable, less invasive method of permanent birth control; an alternative to surgical procedures that block, cut or seal the fallopian tubes.
But Ms Brockovich has joined a growing chorus of women questioning the procedure, saying the product has injured thousands of women.
“It’s perforating uteruses; it’s perforating colons; it’s perforating the lining of the stomach,” Ms Brockovich tells the BBC.
“Some women have whole body scans — they don’t know where it is, because it’s just floating free in the body.
“One woman had the procedure and she ended up getting pregnant. She couldn’t have [the coil] removed and in the 25th week of the pregnancy it broke and migrated, perforating the amniotic fluid.
“The child didn’t make it.”
Source: BBC
