Handmade free-form lampwork glass focal bead by Susan Bucher, founder of the Coalition for Post Tubal Women (CPTwomen). 

The title of this e-Bead is "Perforation"

Bead pays tribute and homage to the victims of Essure. Inclusion in the glass bead is a spring wire, symbolic of the Essure permanent birth control device. The resilient yet fragile glass bead is symbolic of women. The inclusion of the wire into the bead causes the glass to react with bubbles which is symbolic of the inflammation that the device causes.  The only way the wire could be removed from the bead would be to shatter and destroy the bead; symbolic of the hysterectomies, cycle of abuse, devastation and mayhem the Essure device has waged upon women. 

A portion of the funds raised from this auction is being donated to ASHES Advocating Safety In Healthcare E-Sisters to support their activism work. 

See the pictures for details and measurements. 

This auction is for the single loose bead shown only. 

The bead is not strung on a necklace or cord. 

The bead is shown on a cord for photographic purpose only.