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How Redesigning the Speculum Could Help Us Rethink the Rape Kit
In some cases, the speculum and rape kit can re-traumatize survivors by treating their bodies as crime scenes. Advocates say it's time to update them both.
This Pap-Test Alternative Is Just as Uncomfortable but Might Be More Accurate
I would have jumped at the chance to never again have my vagina pried open by a cold, ominous, salad-tongs-resembling plastic tool, only to have cells scraped from my cervix after more invasive poking-around with another frigid tool.
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