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Legally Competent, But Too Young To Choose To Be Sterilized?
In the UK, female sterilisation is available on the NHS. However, as the NHS choices website points out:
Surgeons are more willing to perform sterilisation when women are over 30 years old and have had children.
Recent media reports about the experience of Holly Brockwell have detailed one woman’s anecdotal experience of this attitude amongst medics. Ms. Brockwell, 29, explains that she has been requesting sterilization every year since she was 26. However, despite professing a firmly held belief that she does not, has not, and never will want children, her requests have so far been refused, with doctors often telling her that she is ‘far too young to make such a drastic decision’. In this post, I shall consider whether there is an ethical justification for this sort of implicit age limit on consenting to sterilization. Continue reading →
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