Hillary Israeli ) writes:
In ,
Catherine Woodgold wrote:
*My understanding is that all IUD's involve something that can be
*called infection. The uterus is normally free of bacteria, but
*there is a zone around an IUD which contains bacteria. The zone
*can vary in size and shape and type of tissue penetrated.

Can you please provide me some sort of medical reference for this? Some
sites which suggest that your statement is incorrect:

Sorry, I don't have medical references, and the information
may be old and based on multifilament tail IUD's.
The quote you gave didn't seem to state clearly what
percentage of IUD's are free of bacteria (or even that
it's more than half) -- it seems to imply it but
I'm not sure they're actually saying that.

On a different subtopic: here are my personal beliefs.
A person, even if married, is not under any obligation to
participate in a mutual decision about one's own body.
When entering a discussion or negotiation, it's always
generous, and often wise and productive, to enter it
with an open mind; but it's always acceptable, and often
wise and useful, to enter it having already made decisions
about some things one has a right to decide individually.