This is a difficult subject. The first and most obvious point is that I, personally (FWIW), fully support body autonomy so if people want to get sterilized if

This is a difficult subject. The first and most obvious point is that I, personally (FWIW), fully support body autonomy so if people want to get sterilized if they want. The article points out the issue with regret. I'm not sure how you handle that other than maybe coming up with a more easily reversible procedure? Either way, if someone may end up regretting a decision is no reason to take that choice away from someone. But you can't talk about this issue without talking about how the medical profession treats women. Women are often ignored and their pain and concerns are downplayed or outright dismissed, sometimes catastrophically. Some women are sterilized without consent for reasons with little or even no medical basis. If you're not aware, look at the "husband's stitch" for an example of misogynist medical barbarism. You also can't ignore the politics of this and how the fight against reproductive rights sprang out of "Great Replacement" fears [1]: > In an 1865 essay issued by order of the AMA, Storer went so far as to say of white women that “upon their loins depends the future destiny of the nation.” If you think that's ancient history, it isn't [2]. Rep. Mary Miller (R-IL) called the defeat of Roe v. Wade a “victory for white life.” This is the same Miller who said "Hitler Was Right on One Thing" [3]. [1]: https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-fight-to-ban-abortion-is-rooted-in-the-great-replacement-theory/ https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-the-fight-to-ban-ab... [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtdOAdmqqIY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QtdOAdmqqIY [3]: https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illinois-congresswoman-says-hitler-was-right-on-one-thing/2409325/ https://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/chicago-politics/illin...