Local health clinics are finally offering IUD patients sedation to relieve pain

After women complained for years about the excruciating pain that can accompany IUD insertions, some clinics, including Planned Parenthood of Massachusetts, are finally offering sedation for the procedure. Why did this take so long, and what does this say about how medicine treats women's pain?
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