FFS. Bingo central January 17, 2013 | Registered: 12 years ago Posts: 173 |
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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.
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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".
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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,
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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!
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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.
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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.
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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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