“... consent was signed, either by self or parent”.
Did you read the article? One so called “Dad” signed the permission form for his daughter. The same daughter he had been sexually abusing since 12. Were you sterilized before you had children or at 18? Or, did you willingly choose to go through a medical procedure based on your own free will and nothing else held above your head?
Is that the same “Dad” folks want to be legally required to give permission for a minor female child to buy RU486?
(don’t bite down hard on every shiny thing that floats by. I’m just playing the devil’s advocate. )
I wanted to get sterilization from the moment I became aware. This was in NC. Being “unbred”, I would have been required to attend several expensive “counseling sessions” that I could not afford. I had to wait some 20 years for mentality to change. In 1989 my employer’s insurance company paid in full.
No child that I would have produced would have had a chance of becoming a productive member of society. I know that because I was blessed with a relatively high I.Q. Not every female has good motherhood opportunity, potential or inclination. Women who love being mothers don’t seem to understand or accept that fact.