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Article: Are you being denied the best birth control?(health)(tubal ligations)
- Article from:
- Marie Claire
- Article date:
- July 1, 2004
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It's legal. It's reliable. It's safer than the alternatives. So why do women have such a hard time getting doctors to tie their tubes? Three Marie Claire readers tell how they were questioned, lectured, or flat-out denied the contraceptive they wanted most. (P.S.: Men can demand--and get--a vasectomy at any age)
FACT Tubal ligation is the country's most popular form of birth control. Nearly 10.7 million women rely on it, compared to the 10.4 million who take the Pill.
Monica 29, SELF-EMPLOYED
I like kids, but after babysitting my 27 cousins for most of my life, I've already done enough child-raising not to want any of my own. So when I fell in ...