Younger women wanting sterilisation

[RJDiogenes]

Is this a universal issue or a religion facility issue?

Good question. They didn't do any kind of birth control at the Catholic hospital that I worked for, but we did TLs without restraint at BMC. And the insurance company that I work for now has no criteria for voluntary sterilization for either men or women (unless the group has ridered out the benefit, which some religious organizations do).

 

[-Brett-]

Keep going the way we are, it'll be mandatory before too long. May as well be optional for a while first.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

Why would it be mandatory?

 

[JWPlatt]

The Earth is not ultimately sustainable at the current rate of population growth. Lacking self-discipline in the midst of political and religious denial until we are swimming in our own filth, our desperate progeny will eventually be forced to impose policy, or nature and the limits of resources will.

 

[Robert Maxwell]

This is not even a peripheral concern in industrialized countries, though, where birth rates have fallen precipitously over the past few decades.

Or are you suggesting we have an international coalition impose strict reproductive controls in Niger?

 

[Locutus of Bored]

The Earth is not ultimately sustainable at the current rate of population growth. Lacking self-discipline in the midst of political and religious denial until we are swimming in our own filth, our desperate progeny will eventually be forced to impose policy, or nature and the limits of resources will.

 

[JWPlatt]

This is not even a peripheral concern in industrialized countries, though, where birth rates have fallen precipitously over the past few decades.

Or are you suggesting we have an international coalition impose strict reproductive controls in Niger?

"Is" is an extremely short term point of view. The worldwide population is growing, even if you can cherry pick some countries where it isn't. It's like climate change that way. And there are the equivalent naysayers. Climate change and population growth likely have a strong correlation. I'm suggesting that physics, nature, limited resources, and a ruined biosphere will eventually take care of it whether we do or not. Religious promotion of unbounded reproduction and objections to birth control, backward policies and ignorance about sexual education, and lack of female empowerment in various countries, developing or otherwise, don't help matters and could be vastly improved.

 

[Anna Yolei]

This is ridiculous that this is still a thing going on in 2016.

In the age of information, most people have at least Googled this stuff and have some idea of what they're getting into. Plus, as pointed out earlier, the women who regret it are far out shadowed by those who don't. And it's the example in the OP, a 22 year old with three children already....she needs to be at at the top of the damn list.

 

[Gov Kodos]

'Bout time.