Why is gynecology still using a Civil War-era tool?

  Taylor Townsell remembers her OBGYN reassuring her that her IUD insertion would feel like “just a pinch.” The pain came a split second later. The 32-year-old described it to Truthdig and 19th News in still-vivid detail: “Bright, electric, as if my body had become nothing but nerve endings.” She passed out. Six years later,