Careful, or you'll regret not reproducing.

Published: July 27, 2007, 6:36 pm

For once, I'm not talking about the anti-choice movement. American Sexuality magazine has a piece describing one young woman's travails in finding a doctor willing to perform a tubal ligation on her. She's in her early 20s, and absolutely, positively, 100% certain she never wants children. Never. Seems perfectly logical to me that she'd want her tubes tied. After all, birth control is expensive. And can be a nuisance. If you know you won't want kids, why wait another 10 years to have this surgery? Maybe because doctors are refusing to perform it on her: [Planned Parenthood of Boston**] said it was much too permanent and weren't going to give it to me, plus my insurance wasn't going to cover it, recalls Green. What's more, according to Green, It was all and only about my age. She was twenty-two at the time. Green's experience is not that unusual. Though no actual laws have ever been put into place, most OBGYNs refuse to provide women under thirty with permanent

[ Full article ]

Blog link

Comments