IUDs
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You'll get your free IUDs and morning-after-pills, if not from your employer or the insurers - then from the increasingly desperate taxpayer (who, by now, might even consider paying for a spaying, too).
A 2008 review of the available T-shaped copper IUDs recommended that the TCu 380A and the TCu 280S be used as the first choice for copper IUDs because those two models have the lowest failure rates and the longest lifespans.
By the mid-1980s IUDS became the main method of contraception through government and organizational policies that aimed to introduce women to modern contraceptives.
Both copper IUDs and levonorgestrel releasing IUSs may interfere with implantation, although this may not be the primary mechanism of action.
In addition to T-shaped IUDs, there are also U-shaped IUDs (such as the Multiload) and 7-shaped Gravigard Copper 7 (with a mini version for nulliparous women introduced in the 1980s).
By 2018, that jumped more than 60 per cent to nearly 330,000 IUDs.