“You’re only 31”; “You’re too young,” the woman, who calls herself Samantha, was told. A woman named Fabienne, who visited a gynecologist a month before her 30th birthday, experienced a similar reaction. Both women were already mothers, they had different motives, but the same wish: they definitely didn’t want to have any more children and therefore wanted to be sterilized. On the website self-determined-steril.de She and others report on the doubts that their decision triggers among some doctors.
Female sterilization: age and method – what women should know – health
