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Vendaval -> RE: Birth control = abortion? (7/23/2008 5:15:22 PM)
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If you are an unmarried, single woman under the age of 30 most doctors in the US will try to talk you out of the procedure. And the majority of people around you will react very negatively. You will be accused of not liking or even hating unmentionables, of being unfeminine, of not knowing your own mind and body, being selfish, of having the wrong priorities, that no decent man will ever want you. Never mind that you may have severe adverse reactions to the Pill or any other hormone based birth control and be allergic to the only spermicide on the US market.
(Alumbrado, the first link you site, scroll down to Reference #7.)
"Are You Kidding?"
"Tubal ligation procedures denied to young women who don’t want children"
By Bonnie Zylbergold
"For now (at least) mama Green needn’t worry; though she’s tried, and will try again, Green has thus far been denied any permanent form of birth control, specifically tubal ligation.
Tubal ligation—known more commonly as “getting your tubes tied,”—involves closing the fallopian tubes so that the egg cannot travel from the ovary to the uterus, where, normally, a fertilized egg would develop into a fetus.
“[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 forms of contraception. Dr. Daniel Wiener, assistant professor of obstetrics and gynecology at McGill University in Montreal, is one such doctor.
With thirty plus years of medical practice, Dr. Wiener finds no good reason for putting otherwise healthy patients in surgery: for one, there are anesthetic risks involved. Plus, tubal ligations are considered elective surgeries (assuming the patient can use other, less invasive forms of birth control). More pressing, still, is the fear that a patient may one day change her mind. Sound familiar?
“Twenty-one to thirty, that’s a big decade. A huge decade,” says Dr. Wiener. “A woman who is twenty-five and says, ‘That’s it, I’ve made my choice,’ I would probably just have to say, ‘You’re making a twenty-five year old choice. You sure that’s going to be a thirty-eight or thirty-nine year old choice?’”
In other words, come back when you’re older."
http://nsrc.sfsu.edu/MagArticle.cfm?&Article=759
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