If you get shot, do you blame the gun manufacturer or the person who shot the gun? I would probably blame the shooter, but that does not mean the gun maker should not share some of the blame. Autonomy gives a person the right to choose the device. Getting the device does not guarantee you will have side effects. However, you are implanting a semi-permanent foreign object into your body. It is rare not to get any side effects. Every non-biologic object is likely to cause some type effect because it should not naturally be there. Most of the time the benefit out ways any risk. After reading the Essure patient information booklet, I would not get the device (I have a very strict no nickel ally and polyester-like fiber coil policy in my body policy).
