Vote for the At your cervix movie!

If you go to IdeaBlob you can vote for this important movie.  If they win, they will be able to finish this movie and get it out into the world!  It is so important that women have this information so we can be more empowered about our bodies!

http://www.atyourcervixmovie.com/about.html

“Uncomfortable”; “Humiliating”; “Traumatic”; “Scarring”–words women too often use to describe pelvic exams. Most of the 90 million U.S. women who get pelvic exams think they are supposed to hurt. Women show disbelief when told that if done correctly on a healthy woman, pelvic exams should be pain-free.

The documentary,At Your Cervix, enters U.S. medical and nursing schools and breaks the silence around the unethical ways in which medical and nursing students learn to perform pelvic exams. These practices—which include nursing students being required to perform exams on each other in front of faculty and medical students “practicing” on unconscious, unconsenting patients—lead directly to the reality that most women find pelvic exams to be humiliating and painful. The existence of these egregious practices are challenged in the film by highlighting an ethical and more effective way of teaching the pelvic exam that has existed for nearly 30 years: the work of the Gynecological Teaching Associates (GTA) of New York City, in which the “patient” herself is the teacher.