Fertility is a gift, not a problem.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with the point.

According to an NPR report, more women are now seeking sterilization.

For example, at Bozeman Health Deaconess Hospital in Montana, more women in their 20s and 30s are asking not for their tubes to be tied, a reversible procedure, but for them to be removed, which is permanent. It's another sign that women's fertility has been largely

pathologized in our culture, treated as a bug instead of a feature of being a woman. It's

as if the woman's body is presumed better when it's more like a man's without the ability

to bear children, and all of this somehow in the name of women's rights. But studies cited in the

article suggests many of these women might regret their decision. Dr. Kavita Aurora from the American College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologist Committee on Ethics described a patient this way.

Quote, she wanted to have autonomous control over her body.

This was her way of ensuring she was the person who got to make the decisions.

Instead of practicing sexual self-restraint, the patient's desire for control instead led her to make the decisions. Instead of practicing sexual self-restraint,

the patient's desire for control

instead led her to deny the potential of motherhood.

For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Street with The Point.