Hannah Anderson doesn’t want children.
The procedures aren’t uncommon. Among sexually active Coloradans between the ages of 18 and 44 who use contraceptives, 30.8% report using sterilization — female sterilization, hysterectomy or vasectomy — as a form of contraception, according to 2019 data from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
While tubal ligation reversal does exist, it is not always possible and experts say the procedure should be considered a permanent birth control solution. Almost all vasectomies can be reversed. Ana Gomez, 36, of Steamboat Springs eventually found a doctor in the UCHealth system who would perform her salpingectomy two years ago, but said she faced comments from her provider such as, “So your mom is never going to be a grandma?”
“They want you to have a better life than they had but they also need to understand that we get to decide what that life looks like for us, and a better life for me is one without children,” Gomez said. “This constant need to question somebody that has made a choice for themselves is a little ridiculous because people aren’t making these serious choices on a whim. There is a lot of thought into it.”For Zoe Schacht, sterilization isn’t as much about a child-free future as it is a pain-free life.
“It’s so frustrating that any health care provider would look past my pain struggles and be inconsiderate of that, but also to prioritize the possibility of me having a child over my own pain,” Schacht said. “In my reproductive life, I have probably 20 to 30 more years of this and the idea that any doctor would think the potential of me having a child in the future is more important than those 20 to 30 years of living not in pain is ridiculous, insulting and beyond exhausting.
28 when I had my hysterectomy. Never regrated it. Birth control caused me problems, I didn't want an IUD. The hysterectomy rather than tubal, history of female cancer in my family. Cheaper and no regrets such a relief. Recommend it. I am a Woman no matter what republicans say.
Gross🤮
This is not a healthy society