Quoting supermama322:
There are no official guidelines here at all.
This! It amazes me how many woman really think there are laws regarding this stuff! NO. No there is NOT. Find me one statute....you won't be able to quote one, because none exists. What dictates tubal ligations is the "standard of care" -- or generally accepted guidelines that doctors have operated on for a certain amount of time. For example, the "standard of care" for treatment of an infection that is bacterial in nature would be antibiotics, unless other approaches are feasable or it is a unique situation that requires another approach. It's the same with tubal ligation. In some areas (or states), doctors may collectively agree that, ethically speaking, it's probably not a good idea to perform a tubal on a woman under 25 without extenuating circumstances (health problems, or has already had a certain number of children, ext.). So, in that state, it might be really hard to get a doctor to agree to a tubal otherwise. Some doctors may make it appear to their patients as if it is a law -- but this is not so. Some doctors also say it's the law to vaccinate, and while there is a law for school attendance, it's not illegal to refuse shots and you can't be arrested for it (though you can asked to stay in a certain area for a certain amount of time if there is an outbreak -- but no one, under normal circumstances, can forcibly vaccinate you or your child). It's the same thing with tubals -- it's really up to the doctor in all cases. You will probably find some doctors who will perform tubals on whomever they feel like, whatever age, when requested by the patient. As for the 19 year old poster in question, she may very well have had a tubal. It's quite possible that a doctor may have granted her request based upon many reasons -- maybe he or she thought that teen mothers shouldn't have more children, maybe she had a health condition that she isn't talking about, mental or physical, perhaps she was in an abusive relationship and the doctor didn't want any further children to have to suffer...really, the possibilities are endless.
I would think, however, that it would be in the doctor's best interests to avoid performing tubals for women under 25, if not only for the reasons of regret but also because of possiblity of litigation. It's not far off to think that a woman might have deep regret, or say that she was coerced and pressured into signing the papers. If such actually did occur, or if the jury believed her story whether true or not, it could end the doctor's career. So, I don't blame any doctor for having strict standards by which he or she will perform a sterilization procedure.
Quoting Logan_Bellasmom:
This...why dont people get there is no law
Quoting hautemama83:
Any age, its just a matter of finding a Dr who will do it.
There are no laws in any state regarding she limit for a tubal.
there isn't age limit in any of the fifty states. the only there is you have to be 18. there is nothing anywhere and it isn't a law
no idea. when i had dd they wouldnt let me get one cuz i was single my dr said if i had been married she would have done it and she was my 2nd baby and i was 23
I don't know about age and tubals in our state. I didn't know there was a age or something minimum. I thought anyone could have it done who was an adult at any age.
Quoting pinkcoffeecup:I don't know about age and tubals in our state. I didn't know there was a age or something minimum. I thought anyone could have it done who was an adult at any age.
Am I wrong for not giving a F**** that hes dying?
- mommy03021207
on Jul. 5, 2012 at 11:14 PM