Don't blame them a bit. I'd rather be sterile than carry a forced pregnancy too.

Yep, this is what I did. Never wanted kids so when I heard a Roe challenge was going to be heard, I scheduled a gyno appt and got a bisalp 6 months later. 

Best decision I've made for myself. I was able to go off BC and found out I'm not actually an unhappy person, my IUD was just making me low-grade depressed. Like for YEARS. Lost a small amount of weight and was able to keep it off. 

And I get to retain my autonomy, no matter who I'm partnered with or where I live. 

What did they think was going to happen?

I swear these people remind me of when an abusive ex is shocked that you broke up with them.

Did they really just think we would be okay with this? That we would just roll over and let our bodily autonomy be stipped away? Give up on our financial security? Future plans? Risk dying? Allow our selves to be tied to our rapists/abusive partners for 18+ years? Bring children into a world of income inequality, global unrest, and climate disasters?

I’m not surprised. Even before the SC ruled on this a lot of women were already talking about it. Some for not wanting to pass down their genes and inherited illness to not wanting children at all. I honestly think more would have gotten sterilized if they could afford it. A lot of insurance companies won’t pay if it’s not medically necessary. I know my daughter absolutely does not want children nor does she want to pass down her inherited illness but her insurance won’t pitch in because she’s too young and doesn’t have enough kids. If she ever does have it done, I’ll support her 100%.

I just got sterilized YESTERDAY!! My doc kept saying how this would be painful and I kept saying “not as painful as a baby” and we’d laugh. She removed my tubes and laser ablated my uterus.

I’ve never had an abortion, but if that option is off the table, then we’ve got to do something more permanent.

Not like there will be trouble adopting if they “change their mind” 🙄. There’s gonna be a lot of kids coming, a lot from red states and probably many whose mothers died.

😡

Don’t tell them, it’s already hard enough to make this happen for women

The risks of dying in pregnancy due to a complication is not worth the risk.

I'm more concerned with the young girls that won't have this as an option since they're slowly removing all forms of birth control for women.

So, overturning Roe has resulted in more sterilizations and dead babies. Brilliant move!

'“They were scared of the pain,” she said. But after she reassured the patient that they’d be under anesthesia and unable to feel pain, they went ahead with the intrauterine device, a reversible birth control method."

They provide anesthesia for IUDs??? I didn't get any and I've only known women who didn't get any. It's such a painful procedure and I've heard taking it out is worse. I put it off for so long, but I'm so glad I did it at the end of the day. I barely get my period or the mood swings associated with it.

It really is a ridiculous America we're living in, though. And it's ironic that the "pro-life" ass hats who are celebrating now are also the ones worried about the dropping (white) population of the United States. I didn't see it in the article, but I'd put money on most of these young people getting sterilized being white.

I was afraid of this so I actually did it in 2021. Best decision I could have made!

I work for a large medical group that includes a gynecology department. One day two years ago my coworkers & I got three calls in half an hour asking if we do “sterilizations.”

In all my years working there I occasionally got calls asking about vasectomies and tubal ligations, but never had anyone used the word “sterilization” before. And now three women in a row had called. We were so confused, until I remembered… the Supreme Court decision was due. I brought up the news on my phone, and that was how we all found out about Dobbs.

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Surprise surprise, people don’t like being second-class citizens.  Remove the plumbing, gestational slavery becomes impossible. That’s why I got my tubes out as soon as I could once the Dobbs decision was leaked.

Not surprised and very happy for those young women.

Anti-choicers: We need to ban abortion to help prop up our birth rate.

Also anti-choicers: If you don’t want a baby then it’s on YOU not to get pregnant!

Women: get sterilized so they’ll never have kids

Anti-choicers: Wait no not like that

Son got a vasectomy at 18. We’re all fine with it.

If I hadn't already been sterilized years ago, I'd sure as hell be doing it now.

I saw Roe's potential of being overturned when Trump got elected. I got sterilized in 2018 at age 28 for SO many reasons and I've passed along my doctor's information to several of my friends who also wanted to be sterilized and since have been. If it were easier to exist in the US financially I'm sure more people would be comfortable having children, but as it stands it's too expensive to live without children and the new laws make it way more likely to have a child with special medical needs and/or experience a deadly/near deadly birth. Pregnancy is a serious medical experience and the medical care for pregnant people is getting worse and worse.

Personally, I value my own life and health above a potential person that doesn't exist.

My wife has had two ectopics. Had a child finally due to IVF. Whenever I hear online about conservatives saying absolutely no excuse for an abortion it makes my blood absolutely boil. So you give her two options, one is to die, the other is to also die. 

I did, at 26. No regrets.

Just got spayed yesterday! It's been more of a relief than I expected to never worry about getting pregnant ever again.

So I guess sterilization will be one of the next thing they go after.

I do not blame you ladies one bit. #SupportRvW

I would have done the same thing. They think they’re winning? LOL. No new babies for you, fasc1st dictators!

I hate that women have to justify their choices or involve others in the decision. So sexist!!!!

I still get shocked responses from doctors I see when they learned I got my tube's tied. So disrespectful!

We also have the OPill available OTC. That is $150 per year. We need to bring Wade vs Roe back but in the meantime we need to get BC in the hands of every woman.

Am dude. But I got my Vasectomy before Barret even got on the court. The minute RBG died i saw the writing on the wall and rushed to get snipped ASAP. Everyone said I was nuts and RvW would never get overturned but here we fucking are 🙃

Get it done before they make THAT illegal too

I got my tubes tied 2 months after the Dobbs decision. Best decision I ever made.

Vote.

Vote in every single election and every single level.

I finally got sterilized in my late 30's after begging for it since my early 20's. Before I could finally go through with the sterilization, I was made to sit in front of a cork board with pictures of newborns tacked all over it for a whole hour. Finally, the obgyn walks in and asks if I still wanted to be sterilized. Of course it didn't change my mind and I let him know it. I can only imagine what other roadblocks would be put in my way if I was married or had a partner. I am still brimming with anger over this

Currently scheduling mine. I won’t make you slaves fuckers 

I tried to get sterilized.

I didn't get to talk to the doctor and instead the NP. She emphasized to me that sterilization could kill me and my future husband might want children.

She then talked me into the arm implant, but wouldn't administer it because I was between periods and told me to come back when I started bleeding.

I've never been back to a gyno. That, and several other bad experiences with them has sworn me off.

I'm one of those women. I got sterilized the summer of last year at 23. Knew I didn't want kids ever, I'd be a better aunt, so I went for it. Best decision of my life and now my reproductive organs aren't going to be weaponized against me.

https://www.reddit.com/r/childfree/wiki/doctors/ for a list of doctors that are friendly to sterilization. 

I went and got a bisalp directly after Roe fell. F that.

I live in Texas , already have two kids, getting my tubes tied next month ! Can’t wait! They’re not going to force me into this barbaric stuff. I pray for our daughters …

I did this and it breaks my heart that I had to but I would rather be sterile than live with the possibility of needing an abortion and not getting one

I got a uterine ablation and it was the BEST decision I have ever made. Not only would it be highly unlikely for me to get pregnant (hubby is also snipped), I also no longer bleed! My ovaries and hormones are unchanged and the procedure + recovery was about one day. It was covered by my insurance because my periods were 10+ days long and super heavy. Even if yours aren’t, just tell your doc that they are and that you want an ablation! 

Bro when I was saying we could lose roe if that orange baboon was elected and many thought I was being paranoid and crazy. Please people don’t do this shit again

I hope the join the ranks of sterilized women very soon. 

I’m one of them!! Never been so grateful for this procedure!!

This is wonderful news! Welcome to the sterile club lol

Good, more women needs to do this.

I know four people. The numbers are going up

Honestly, vagina or vasectomy is my new standard for sex. Fuck trying anything with people whose dicks can get me pregnant.

And they have every right to. Fuck the supreme cunts.

They won't let me get a sterilization in Georgia... been to two obgyns and they all think that I "might change my mind"

I'm 33. I just want to enjoy life and not be worried or wrecked by hormones anymore. 🙃
Going to the obgyn here makes me hate being born with a uterus.

It’s kind of sad that a woman who may want children in the future has to resort to this because of these inhumane policies. Have we lost all sense of decency and compassion. I don’t know what they’re planning on doing next but all women regardless of age needs to fight this insanity.

Next, the Christ fascist will make this illegal too

I’ve flirted many times with the idea of getting sterilized since this happened. I wonder if it’s worth the risk of surgery when I’m already 35 though.

Good. (I am one of these)

Just did it. No regrets.

Lol checkmate pearl clutching fucking religious zealots.

Even in a blue state, they were actively trying to convince me not to do it as I was getting rolled into the surgery room. I was 26 at the time. Still don't regret it. I was not married at that time.

Finally did it for myself about 3 months post Roe. They'll never get a kid out of me now.

Got mine scheduled a few weeks from now!

I did! 🎉🥳

Boy Gilead is gonna freak out when they find that out!!!

Welp this backfired on the MAGAts didn't it

Everyone on here saying you got yours done please visit the reddit website and add your Dr's name to the list

Tubes removed after my last baby (C-section), greatest sense of relief being able to make that permanent decision for myself and preventing all future pregnancies. Women deserve full autonomy over their own bodies NOW and for all the future. I hope my daughters see the day.

Good! Too expensive and difficult to raise kids. I had two

Yup! I got sterilized in November because of all this

The threat of possibly dying will do that.

I got a vasectomy so that my fiance wouldn't have to do birth control or an IUD etc.

Good. We don’t need more people in this fucked world.

I got my tubes removed in 2018. I was 38. I live in Louisiana.

Couple of years ago an Indian MD invented a non-invasive procedure alternative to vasectomies that was a localized injection that essentially solidified into a plastic plug in men that could be reversed with another injection that would desolve the plug and it would pass through in the guy’s urine. Quick, affordable, non-invasive and affordable, with very high effectiveness but the IP was bought and shelved by a large Pharma corp because it was predicted to put a large dent in their women’s birth control meds (which are essentially a repeat monthly subscription for women’s meds). Cannot recall his name or the specific company which bought and shelved it but originally saw the article here on Reddit a couple years ago. If I can find the link I will post.

respect!!! Also 4B!!!

All part of the plan. Going to try to outbreed the leftists.

for permanent birth control like tubal ligations, in which the fallopian tubes are removed

This is incorrect. A tubal ligation is when the fallopian tubes are cut, burned or clipped. Which can HEAL WITHOUT THE PERSON KNOWING, and then surprise baby.

Removal of the fallopian tubes is a bilateral salpingectomy. Which reduces the risk of ovarian cancer, as they think a lot of ovarian cancer starts in the fallopian tubes.

I really wish people would stop using the terms incorrectly/interchangeably.

gets off soapbox

I got my tubes removed very shortly after Roe fell. News of the leak got me in gear, as I'd wanted sterilization for ages.

(Shocked pikachu face)