An Open Letter to Doctors Who Keep Denying Women Permanent Birth Control
Stop treating women like the kids we don’t want to have (or have any more of).
At the time of writing, I’m 35 years old. I’ve known for 15 solid years that I didn’t want to have children. I thought that by now, my efforts to at least get a tubal ligation would be honored, if not a full hysterectomy. But no.
I just got ANOTHER denial because “you’re too young without kids and could change your mind”. Too young?? I am literally less than a year away from “geriatric pregnancy” if I did get knocked up by accident. Whatever eggs I have left that didn’t get squashed from years of trauma, hard drinking in my youth, and almost killing myself with stress at various points of my life should be dried up in less than a decade! Let me live those years out in peace!
Do you actually have any patients who regretted not having kids? Who literally came to you a few years later and said so?
Because I don’t believe you do.
I really, truly, do not believe it.
Nor do any of the other patients who have been systemically denied elective permanent contraception, or even…
