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The issue is that every OB/GYN has seen patients that regret the decision. And for most they will have seen instances where that regret ultimately led to suicide.

Do you really want to be the doctor that didn't press for more consideration for a patient that ultimately takes their own life?

I get the idea of giving women control but as a doctor it's also their right to refuse a procedure to not bear that burden. It's similar to the theory of justice that states it's better for 99 guilty men to go free than 1 innocent person to be punished.

It's easier to deal with a lot of angry patients vs one that commits suicide.

At least with the euthanasia there's not really going to be any rebounding patient regret to deal with!

You can't regret dying. Let people do what they want.

Doctors are humans too though and you can't just ask them to gas and mutilate perfectly healthy people so easily. Not what they signed up for.

And they don't have to. But the ones who are ok with it should be able to.

Oh, you absolutely can.

It's funny you say that, because I OD'd about 5 years ago and it reinforced my non-fear of death. It's fine. You're just gone.

How common is this, really? I think you would have to weigh the chances of someone going through multiple specialists (psych evaluation, obgyn, possible other referrals) over the course of months and then magically they come to regret the procedure well into their full adulthood? At that point you might as well say that people shouldn’t be allowed cosmetic surgery, lasik, or braces.

It’s not common at all - on the contrary, the majority of ob-gyns have never seen a patient return and express regret about their voluntary sterilization, let alone know of one who was driven to suicide by it. I don’t know how this commenter came up with the idea.

>At that point you might as well say that people shouldn’t be allowed cosmetic surgery

Indeed, they shouldn't.

>lasik

Which a lot of people report regretting and saying that has only made things worse...? Not a great example.

I very, very much doubt that any of your claims are true.

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