I wore a gigantic ERA braclett to a county reporductive-birth control clinic in 1974 to check on the suspicion of complications from the Copper T IUD. Without advance “numbing” jell, or advice, I was put on a table to beaver 7 men (who walked in unannounced) to watch a 7-inch needle scrape the walls of my tube sacs to ensure if I had a pregnancy within the sacs. Screaming in shock, the table fell 4.5 feet to the ground, beaver in tact. The men leaned forward, and then filed out. The doctor smiled at me and said, “Are you going to be ok?” ERA was the Equal rights Act (Initiative?) for women’s rights movement of the early mid-seventies..equal rights for pay, credit status and opportunity.
PS: I had syphlis – and they never told me-they lied.