“I remember feeling like, This is a male doctor telling me that I can’t make this choice for myself because I need to wait and see what my future male partner wants,” says one woman.
Reproductive justice doesn’t just mean access to abortion, but the agency to reproduce — at all, or never — on one’s own terms. We spoke with four people about their experiences seeking sterilization, both successful and not.“I always knew that I didn't want children. When I went to seek sterilization last fall, I went to multiple gynecologists. The first doctor was very dismissive and said something along the lines of, ‘Oh, you're very young.
I had a long-term partner then, and I told my doctor that my partner and I both decided that we weren't having children. . To me, that was so fucked up because I don't care what my future partners want, it's not up to them whether I'm having kids or not. It felt like it came down to, ‘We'll let the man decide when you get with him.’
While I am so appreciative that he got the procedure for us and it was something that he chose to do, it again put the decision in his hands. One of my fears now, in a post-world, is what happens if I get pregnant for some other reason? Whether his vasectomy fails, or if I'm attacked… There's a lot of things that are possible, and me not having been able to get that procedure before and now being off birth control could mean an unwanted pregnancy.
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