The Fight to Have My Tubes Tied

The other side of a woman’s right to choose

At 19 years old, I knew with absolute certainty that I did not want to have children.

I don’t dislike kids. They’re adorable and innocent, and they’re curious about the world in ways we forget to embrace when we become adults. But for deeply complex, personal reasons, I made the conscious choice to not become a mother.

A series of life experiences and hea…