In Japan - women sue for the right to be sterilized

[Klaus]

Very reasonable. Obtain permission from spouse? GMAFB.

[Jolly]

In 1987 , I had to sign with my wife or the GYN would not tie her tubes.

[Copper]

The state must protect it's interests.

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly said in In Japan - women sue for the right to be sterilized:

In 1987 , I had to sign with my wife or the GYN would not tie her tubes.

I figured the doc would just have to glance at you and then say to your wife “Yeah, you don’t want kids with him.”

[Renauda]

@Jolly said in In Japan - women sue for the right to be sterilized:

In 1987 , I had to sign with my wife or the GYN would not tie her tubes.

So if man, other than yourself of course, had wanted a vasectomy in around that time or earlier would his spouse also have had to sign off agreeing to the procedure?

[LuFins Dad]

Compare and contrast to today in the US where a 12 year old girl says in school “I don’t want to grow boobs, it will make it harder to play softball” so the teacher gets them a chest binder, gives them a recommendation for a doctor that will give her puberty blockers, start calling her Steve, and tell her not to tell her parents, and schedule the hysterectomy when she turns 16z

[LuFins Dad]

Back to the main point of the thread, Tubal Ligations are reversible, no? So I don’t really see the problem. If she later wants to have children she can.

[LuFins Dad]

But the whole “her body, her choice” thing is ultimately extremely dismissal of the very idea of marriage and two becoming one…

[Doctor Phibes]

@LuFins-Dad said in In Japan - women sue for the right to be sterilized:

But the whole “her body, her choice” thing is ultimately extremely dismissal of the very idea of marriage and two becoming one…

It's really more dismissal of the idea of two becoming three or four.

[Jolly]

@jon-nyc said in In Japan - women sue for the right to be sterilized:

@Jolly said in In Japan - women sue for the right to be sterilized:

In 1987 , I had to sign with my wife or the GYN would not tie her tubes.

I figured the doc would just have to glance at you and then say to your wife “Yeah, you don’t want kids with him.”

I'll have you know I've produced more claimed progeny than you have.

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in In Japan - women sue for the right to be sterilized:

Back to the main point of the thread, Tubal Ligations are reversible, no? So I don’t really see the problem. If she later wants to have children she can.

Yes and no. A good GYN will cut a decent section out, making it more of a chore to reverse.

[Jolly]

@LuFins-Dad said in In Japan - women sue for the right to be sterilized:

But the whole “her body, her choice” thing is ultimately extremely dismissal of the very idea of marriage and two becoming one…

Oh, I think we've screwed that one up, seven ways from Sunday.

[jon-nyc]

@Jolly lol