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hedgehog

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7. I can understand a young woman who doesn't want

Reply to Hissyspit (Original post)

Sun Apr 15, 2012, 09:40 AM

Apr 2012

children using a reversible form of birth control; there's always the possibility she may change her mind in 10 or 15 years. But I think that for an older woman who has decided she has borne the children she wants, the responsible thing to do is to either have her tubes tied and/or if she is in a table relationship for her partner to have a vasectomy.

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