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If you’ve already got nine kids, getting your tubes tied is certainly not an outrageous decision to make. Perhaps especially if you’re only 35, unmarried, unemployed, and at least partially dependent on public assistance. But even so, it is not a decision to be made lightly. It is a surgical procedure with all the risk that implies (mortality rate in industrialized nations is 4 in 100,000) and may cause post-procedural side effects. So imagine the outrage of a woman who went into the hospital for a cesarean section and came out with a tubal ligation as a bonus!
In testimony that Maryland Senator Barbara Mikulski called “bone-chilling,” Colorado mom Peggy Robertson recently shared with a Senate committee the unbelievable story of how a major health insurance carrier refused to insure her and what they suggested she do to make herself eligible for coverage.
Judge Charlie Baird was accused to providing judicial support to enforced sterilization when he told Felicia Salazar she couldn’t have anymore children as part of her probation last year. This year he’s singing a different tune.
At twenty-one, Tarrah Seymour is pregnant with her second child and says she doesn’t want anymore. But doctors have told her she’s too young to decide for herself.



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