This sounds ridiculous. The USA has more gender-based cultural forces than the Middle East and Asia? Asia where people are still having gender-selective abortions? The Middle East where it's okay to rape and kill your 5-year old daughter on suspicion she may not be a virgin? Russia where being a mail order bride or…

Ray Lewis did not kill two people. If you have more information than the DA in Atlanta has, you need to make a phone call.

Okay. Peace and blessings to you. Have a good day.

I wasn't trying to be nasty. I was agreeing with you.

Maybe you need a better doctor.

Oh cool.

A 5-25% regret factor is HUGE for an elective surgery. These doctors haven't outlawed it. They have standards in place for recommending or not recommending a procedure. If there were no other options for contraception, it would be different. And even with the general reluctance to sterilize young people, you can still…

It's elective surgery, but it is *surgery*. They have to open a body to possible infection, and place a person under anesthesia which can also lead to complications. It's an invasive procedure to do and to reverse. Doctors don't like doing surgery when it can be avoided. Vasectomies are far less complicated and…

I googled to see if men are just as likely to change their minds. Here's a blurb I found about regret:

They aren't punishing everyone. They are giving alternative options to young women who don't know what life may throw at them in 10 or 15 years time. I think the rule of thumb they use is no tubal ligations before age 30 if the woman already has kids, 35 if the woman doesn't. It's not unreasonable in my opinion when…

Haha. That's amazing.

Vindictive, yes, but immoral? A tubal ligation is supposed to be a permanent procedure. It's not as if there aren't less permanent solutions out there that the patient could avail herself.

So, her doctor was correct, she shouldn't have had her tubes tied, right?

My friend is an OB/GYN who refuses to do tubal ligations for younger women because so many women eventually come back to have them reversed.

Muah!!

Well, she told you at the beginning— Who run the world? GIRLS.

Yep. There are plenty of women who don't register at all with men.

Birth control solves the problem of periods. Doctors say that women don't have to have periods for up to a year if they take a daily birth control pill. Other birth control means they don't need to have a period for several months at a time.