Reply #80: You found a doc who'd tie your tubes at 25?? [View All]

[queenjane]

I saw many doctors, and none would sterilize me because they just knew I'd change my mind. I don't like children, didn't want children, made damned sure I didn't have any. Got pregnant one time (accident--was on the Pill, took antibiotics at the same time, bingo), had an abortion. I also paid for a friend's abortion (she had no money). I'd bet I am the ONLY person in my whole sprawlin', breedin', religious Southern family who's ever had an abortion. They also have some problem with using birth control--they're Baptist, so I don't think it's so much a religious prohibition as simply laziness & ignorance. Besides, they don't even raise their own children, they hand them off to the grandparents or great-grands and go on their merry way, reproducin' some more.

Hard to get a handle on overpopulation when so many give no more thought to having children than I do to a bowel movement.