I have to disagree. I appreciate that many women and probably the majority of women out there will come to a stage in their lives where they may want children, even when they think they don't. But there are those of us out there that are just not maternal and never will be. I wish I could have been sterilised at 30! Or even at 25! I asked for sterilisation at 38 because I was having a horrendous reaction to the pill. I had already tried the injection - which made me gain 2 stone and didn't want the coil.
I agree with you Cider. I never wanted children, and never felt any twinge of maternal instincts. When ever I've said that I didn't like kids, or that they annoyed me (which they do) I'd always get the smart arse comments of "oh you'll change your mind", or "it's different with your own children". What these people are really doing is disrespecting my opinions about my own life, and telling me I don't know my own mind.
Sure we always hear the examples of women who have changed their minds later in life. Well bully for them. What about all the women who never change their minds - like me? Maybe those women, who went on to having children, would have been just as happy and just as fulfilled without the children, had there been no possibility of having them.
If this woman wants this procedure done, then it should be her right. She is a mature woman who knows what is best for her life. No one has a right to make reproductive decisions for another woman. If it's a decision she later regrets, then it's also her right to have those regrets.
