I think I see the reason for the snide remark, and it’s an invalid reason, especially if you subscribe to a Catholic model of sexual morality. (I don’t, but I had understood that you did, and unless you’re purposely doubting their teachings you ought to abide by them.) Doing something to impair personal fertility is a well known no-no under that big tent. Surgical repairs to body functions are not no-nos.
I’m not Catholic, and I don’t subscribe to the idea that having a vasectomy is a sin. So one sort of surgical remedy weighs the same as any other to me.
When a couple has reached the number of children they can support reasonably, and do not wish to bring more children into the world, I view it as a responsible mature decision to either have the husband get a vasectomy or the wife to get her tubes tied.
You may have determined that I am a Catholic, because I will enter threads about government negetivism against it, and address it for what it is.
Personally, I don’t look upon Catholicism favorably, but it’s not my duty to frequent Free Republic threads saying so. I do view an attack on one religion, to be an attack on all religions, and I won’t stand for it.
Watching the Left in the U. S. sing the song of Separation of Church and State non-stop when it comes to trappings of Christianity in our schools, then claim the government has every right to dictate to religions what their dogma will be, is totally unacceptable, and I’ll step in to defend any church on the wrong end of government tyranny.