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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2263631/Sterilised-10-minutes--regret-rest-lives-Thousands-women-using-new-NHS-device-banish-fear-pregnancy.html

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The procedure was all but over in the time it takes to buy a coffee and a sandwich, but it was to be a life-changing event for Suzanne Kennedy. For in those few minutes, she surrendered her fertility - permanently - by undergoing a new and controversial method of sterilisation that can be done in a lunch break.
Suzanne, 41, from Harborne, Birmingham, is one of thousands of British women who have chosen to prevent pregnancy for life with a controversial new device called Essure.
Inserting Essure is quick (it takes less than ten minutes), simple, and there is apparently less risk of unpleasant side-effects than there is with more conventional contraceptives. It could save the NHS untold millions in doctors' time and drug prescriptions.
But it comes with one major drawback for women. Unlike traditional contraception and sterilisation, which can sometimes be successfully reversed, Essure is intended to be completely permanent.
Critics say that making it so easy for women to carry out such big life decisions, especially in an age of ephemeral relationships, is highly worrying and devices that destroy women's biological function - even if they confer permanent sexual freedom - are a step too far.

They talk to ONE CF woman who had no regrets and a whole bunch of wannamoos who want one of our ownâ„¢ with a new partner. Shock horror!
Way to paint Essure in a bad light assholes.

Permanent sterilization is not a "drawback" of permanent sterilization. :crz

If you don't want to be permanently sterilized, then don't get permanently sterilized.

Is this a hard concept to grasp for most people?

sticking feathers up your butt does not make you a chicken
indecision may or may not be my problem

Essure is not 'contraversial'. It also is no longer that new. Daily Mail manufactured hysteria...

Since the majority of people don't believe women should be able to get voluntarily sterilized, I am not surprised at all they panic when they find out she can get it done on her lunch break! Something like "surrendering" her fertility should be very difficult, be extremely time consuming, expensive, and if it can be physically painful, ALL THE BETTER! I finally gave up on trying to get a tubal ligation a few years ago and now that I am approaching menopause I don't care anymore. I tried unsuccessfully for over two decades to locate a doctor in The Southern United States to perform the procedure. They simply WOULD NOT do it unless you had two loaves, period. Before I was 35 they all said, "I will ONLY do it after you are 35, since you don't have kids". Then, when I reached 35 it was, "Women are changing their minds at 40 now!". Then when I turned 40, it was, "Women are having babies in their 40's now with IVF and fertility drugs, you STILL might change your mind".:smn

Even at the age of 42, after a devastating illness that caused me to be on medications that would make a loaf deformed AND cause me to be at a HUGE risk for a stroke if I became inpig, they STILL WOULD NOT DO A TUBAL on me! I was told, "You would be at high risk and flat on your back the whole time, but your medications could be regulated or changed to keep your loaf safe, you could be monitored carefully the whole time, and you could go on to have a healthy loaf".

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Even at the age of 42, after a devastating illness that caused me to be on medications that would make a loaf deformed AND cause me to be at a HUGE risk for a stroke if I became inpig, they STILL WOULD NOT DO A TUBAL on me! I was told, "You would be at high risk and flat on your back the whole time, but your medications could be regulated or changed to keep your loaf safe, you could be monitored carefully the whole time, and you could go on to have a healthy loaf".

It really is astounding how after everything you went through that having a loaf would be something to even bring up.

It reflects the deepest fear of human beings: mortality. And fucking doctors and other medical establishment drones are no exception. The mighty loaf is a thin thread they hang on to dear life to avoid really considering their mortality and the very darkness that precedes and follows this blip of an existence.

If they weren't such stupid cowards, they wouldn't deceive themselves. They would admit that they really are going to die, and they really don't know where they are going (if going anywhere), and that life is mostly struggle for meaningless reasons.

Then, this obsession with making more people (especially biologically our 'own') will not be a substitute for facing these realities.

In the meantime, they would look with glazed, stupid eyes at a 40-something strong woman who is clearly CF, who had an aneurysm in the past, and who knows what the fuck she doesn't WANT and talk about the possibility of baybeeeeeeeeees :drool

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Critics say that making it so easy for women to carry out such big life decisions, especially in an age of ephemeral relationships,

Uh huh. 'cause we all know that if a woman meets "the right man" all those aberrant thoughts of not having kids will be transformed to the urge to breed.

Check out the Edith Bunker house dress the first Cow is wearing. You'd think that alone would serve as birth control.

Please tell me this isn't being resurrected as a fashion trend.

Makes me glad I live in a country where you have the right to get sterilized when you are 25. My doctor even encouraged me to try to get one before that because she thought that if I knew I didn't want kyds it would be much healthier than hormonal BC wink.

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Check out the Edith Bunker house dress the first Cow is wearing. You'd think that alone would serve as birth control.

Please tell me this isn't being resurrected as a fashion trend.

larious

I thought I was the only one who noticed that. I was picturing, "OH AARRCHIE!!!"

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Since the majority of people don't believe women should be able to get voluntarily sterilized, I am not surprised at all they panic when they find out she can get it done on her lunch break! Something like "surrendering" her fertility should be very difficult, be extremely time consuming, expensive, and if it can be physically painful, ALL THE BETTER!

That way of thinking is also behind what I call "abortion porn" - those articles and videos ostensibly featuring women who are tormented by regret for having abortions and/or describing the harrowing, awful experience of it. Since they can't stop women from having abortions they fantasize that it will be torture for them either before or after.

ETA: I sometimes doubt that any of the reproduction or relationship-related stuff on that site is written by women. It's probably produced by some guys employed by whatever the British equivalent of the Southern Baptist Convention is.

Why is it the business of anyone, especially the media, that some women wish to never have chyldren? With 7 billion people on the planet, we're in no danger of human life dying out.

The attitude is certainly galling; as if we "silly little wimmens" can't possibly know our own minds and decide that chyldren are not for us. Why is it so hard for some to believe that not everyone wants to be a parunt?

"BIOLOGICAL FUNCTION?"

What sort of Cromwellian bullshit is that!

I should wake my Essured DW up and tell her that, so I can hear her scream obscenities.

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Critics say that making it so easy for women to carry out such big life decisions, especially in an age of ephemeral relationships,

Uh huh. 'cause we all know that if a woman meets "the right man" all those aberrant thoughts of not having kids will be transformed to the urge to breed.

That got me too.

I DUMP men who want kids. Or, if I can help it, never date them at all (can't always help it, since sometimes they lie in the hopes I'll change my mind).

Hell, I scheduled my tubal while I was single, and by the surgery date, I had just begun dating my partner.

It was a nice to know that men won't try to lie to me anymore, since they can't try to trick me into breeding. I'm sterile. End of story. And my relationships are better and more trustful because of it.

Hopefully moving in together sometime during the spring. So much for CF women being wandering bachelorettes (not that there's anything wrong with that -- I enjoyed it for a long time).

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Makes me glad I live in a country where you have the right to get sterilized when you are 25. My doctor even encouraged me to try to get one before that because she thought that if I knew I didn't want kyds it would be much healthier than hormonal BC wink.

Where do you live and what time is the next flight? :spin

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kippies
Makes me glad I live in a country where you have the right to get sterilized when you are 25. My doctor even encouraged me to try to get one before that because she thought that if I knew I didn't want kyds it would be much healthier than hormonal BC wink.

Where do you live and what time is the next flight? :spin

Karlstad, Sweden :-D

I wonder who gets Essure during their lunchbreak. Are there people who really feel peppy enough to go straight back to work?