Upon consideration of the evidence of other people’s experience over the long haul, I’d argue that it’s wrong to get yourself sterilized because it’s back to the old view of “Women are acceptable, but only if they’re doctored or functionally disabled or “fixed.””
If you “fix” a miscarriage risk by sabotaging your normal healthy fertility, you never bother with the medical root cause of what was causing those miscarriages to begin with. It tends to be, in practice (if not in intent) a way to dismiss the woman on the cheap, rather than spend the time to figure out where the actual malfunction was.
It’s kinds like the mechanic saying, “We don’t know what’s causing your car engine’s pinging, grating, grinding noises, so we just went with blocking the sound.”
True to some extent. Depends on circumstances.
There are cases of need for tub-ligation. My mom would have died if she got pregnant again age was more the issue for her as she was nearly 45, I’m the one who found her bleeding out in the bathroom and had to call the ambulance and clean up the blood, I was just a teenager then, I’m 68 now.
For me I couldn’t take the Pill to many side effects, and 2 C-Sections were all you were allowed back then. This was my 4th child, and I didn’t want more nor could afford more.
Tub-ligation is a necessity for some of us. Not a wholesale method of population control, but should be an option with full disclosure if issues. Don’t know about any issues with it, had none nor did my mom. Endometriosis which is the most common issue can happen even with C-Sections and that is the most common issue with any abdominal surgery. Mine was done at the same time as the 2nd C-Section.
I don’t know what the C-Section rule is now, I’m well beyond that stage. But 2 were all that the medical community felt was safe then. I couldn’t even take HRT’s. Nasty stuff.