{"id":5796,"date":"2014-05-13T21:54:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-14T04:54:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5796"},"modified":"2018-03-08T16:55:21","modified_gmt":"2018-03-09T00:55:21","slug":"doctors-reluctant-to-give-young-women-permanent-birth-control","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.consciencelaws.org\/?p=5796","title":{"rendered":"Doctors reluctant to give young women permanent birth control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Chicago Tribune<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"author\">Julie Deardorff<\/p>\n<p>When Lori Witt began pursuing a tubal ligation at age 27, she said physicians refused to even discuss it with her, telling her she was too young and might change her mind about having children.<\/p>\n<p>For more than a year, Witt tried to get sterilized. Finally she went with her 28-year-old husband to a military medical clinic overseas, where Witt said he was given a vasectomy with few questions asked.<\/p>\n<p>Decades after sterilization became broadly available to <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2014-05-13\/health\/ct-met-sterilization-denied-20140513_1_tubal-ligation-sterilization-young-women#\" rel=\"nofollow\"> women<\/a> in the U.S., some still have trouble obtaining one of the safest and most effective forms of birth <a href=\"http:\/\/articles.chicagotribune.com\/2014-05-13\/health\/ct-met-sterilization-denied-20140513_1_tubal-ligation-sterilization-young-women#\" rel=\"nofollow\">control<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists says nobody who seeks sterilization should be denied. But some women say the reality can be much different, especially for younger women and those without children. . . 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