How Doctors Fail Women Who Don’t Want Children

The author is ~25 years old and requested when she was ~20 and still in school. It is completely fair to deny the operation at that age citing that she might change her mind. Now the woman who is 29 and married is a different story, but her personal example seems like a poor one. I do support the author's point, but not for 20 year olds. She should've explored the difference between men and women more!

Sure, this is anecdotal evidence, but the experience my wife and I had couldn't have been more different.

It took her, (in her late 20s) : 18 months, multiple letters from therapists and psychiatrists, some really solid medical reasons, and a lot of work to get her procedure. You want weapons-grade fertility treatments at 19? No problem. But you want to not have children? Ooh, you might regret it!!!

By contrast, my procedure involved a 15-minute conversation, and signing a paper which shortened the waiting period from 14 days to 72 hours. Same age. In San Francisco. At the same facility.

Stats, stats, stats. What portion of women in their early twenties who decide they _never_ want children never change their mind? It's perfectly reasonable to assume they aren't the majority, especially given the consequences of assuming so.

Vasectomy is generally reversible. And even if not, the man can have children using IVF.

Author states 1 in 5 women under 30 regret their decision. This is evidence enough not to perform an irreversible sterilization procedure. Instead using IUD are quite reliable causing a reversible former of sterilization.

It is important to have specialist physical input when writing these articles.