Tuesday, June 28, 2022

In regard to the Supreme Court's decision regarding women's health...

 ... there will be more younger women that will seriously consider sterilization.

There are a few forms of sterilization that comes to mind. But, the idea sterilization will be used to prevent births is alarming. The options for life's ambitions for men and women will narrow and extreme choices will come into sight. 

Sometimes it takes a few years, even ten or more, for a couple to find their path forward to prosperity. But, at the end of that process, the couple may decide the path forward defines room for children. I would hate to think these couples would choose sterilization and later find their only real answer to have children is adoption or surrogate mothers or test tube fertilization only to have the eggs implanted to the woman's uterus. 

These realities will become more prominent as abortion will no longer be a choice. 

Abandoning abortion is completely wrong. Taking abortion away from these women will result in sterilization. They are not hard wired to children as their life's ambition. They see children as an enhancement to their lives.

January 18, 2018
By Gretchen Livingston


...The share of U.S. women (click here) at the end of their childbearing years who have ever given birth was higher in 2016 than it had been 10 years earlier. Some 86% of women ages 40 to 44 are mothers, compared with 80% in 2006, according to a Pew Research Center analysis of U.S. Census Bureau data.1 The share of women in this age group who are mothers is similar to what it was in the early 1990s....

August 12, 1990
By Carol Lawson

...Four years after the Baby M case, (click here) which provoked calls for strict regulation of surrogate motherhood, if not an outright ban, surrogacy is not only actively practiced but expanding in a new direction, bringing new hope to some families and, at the same time, highlighting a host of ethical and legal concerns.

Wife's Eggs and Husband's Sperm

The Baby M case, in which the surrogate mother fought to keep the baby she had carried, involved what physicians now call traditional surrogacy. The surrogate mother is impregnated through artificial insemination with the sperm of the husband from the couple who have hired her. The surrogate is thus the genetic mother of the baby....

These were settled issues for a long time. Alito's political ambitions in ending abortion has opened all this again. The Surgeon General needs to open a task force to re-examine all these issues. Americans need options without exploitation and/or invasion of privacy.

March 23, 2014
By Clyde Haberman

...In New Jersey in 1985, (click here) a woman of no great means, Mary Beth Whitehead, entered into a contract with William Stern, whose wife, Elizabeth, had multiple sclerosis and feared she could endure severe health problems were she to become pregnant. For $10,000, equivalent to about $22,000 today, Ms. Whitehead agreed to be inseminated with Mr. Stern’s sperm, carry the pregnancy to term and then yield parental rights to the more affluent Sterns. But after the birth of a girl, referred to as Baby M in court papers, Ms. Whitehead had a change of heart. She chose to forsake the $10,000 and keep the girl. Predictably, matters went about as well as they did for Hagar and Sarai. The Sterns sued....

Passing judgement on Americans in paternal decision making is NOT the way they feel safe and happy in order to start families. They will stop having families and opt for fullment and purpose in different ways.