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S/O Permanent Birth Control
I'm thinking about what gregslittlewifey said about how no doctor will perform a permanent BC operation on her because of her age.
On the one hand, I understand that it costs the health care system a good chunk of money each year to reverse these procedures, and that some people have successfully sued doctors when they changed their minds but were still unable to conceive. That said, I really don't know how I feel about doctors making decisions about your personal reproductive choices.
I mean, if you are 100% positive that you don't want to risk getting pregnant, EVER, why should they have the ability to tell you no? I mean seriously... what happens if, God forbid, your non-permanent BC fails? What if you're opposed, for whatever reason, to abortion?
I know a girl who is 24 with two kids. She was married at 18, had her first kid at 20, the second at 22, and knows that she absolutely, under no circumstances, wants any more. When she and her husband (who is 26) went in to discuss the procedure with a doctor, the doctor actually told them that he wouldn't do it because if they split up, they might want to have kids with their new partners. WTF?
Re: S/O Permanent Birth Control
That is something don't understand.
I wonder if it has to do with a docs religious beliefs sometimes.
I've got a friend very similar to your own Mac and she got her tubes tied at 21!! The doctor had NO problem with it whatsoever.
Then again another friends doctor absolutely refuses. She has 4 kids. I think it's time to tie those damn tubes too.
Unless there is a real medical decision against the procedure, the doc should have no say!
yeah i would go right now and set up an appointment if i could..i havent actually checked how it is in canada but i would bet it is the same and i have heard that im to young to know what i want :P.
I hate when doctors assume they know everything about you and do not listen to you and ignore your question...gah! i hate my doctor :P...that felt good to get that out lol
This. So much this.
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Reminds me of this: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1230142/Pregnant-mother-13-says-I-having-babies-I-twins.html
I just read the article...OMG it CANNOT be true! Are there people out there that are truly that fuckingmoronic?
I'm very curious to know if your H has tried to get a?vasectomy?and if doctors are refusing him the same way??
Kristi and Kerry June 21,2008
Yeah, my docs told me they wouldn't do this on me until I had a gaggle of kids.
Now I am only 23 but I have a bunch of medical problems and will be in a sh!tload of pain if I get KU. Birth control pills obviously just contribute more hormones to the already messed up mix that is my body so H and I rely on condoms. Fun stuff.
I think the docs should shove it and let me do whatever I want with my body.