# Finding affordable sterilization procedures?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-affordable-sterilization-procedures/967087>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [June 29, 2022, 4:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-affordable-sterilization-procedures/967087 "2022-06-29T04:14:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\
**Post date:** [June 29, 2022, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/finding-affordable-sterilization-procedures/967087/13 "2022-06-29T22:18:09Z")

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I started a thread about this a while back, although I didn’t realize it was that long ago.

> [@Spousal permission required for sterilization](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/spousal-permission-required-for-sterilization/778118):
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> On the mostly-female board I just came from, I’m seeing story after story about women who couldn’t get a tubal ligation without the written consent of their husbands - in recent years in the U.S., no less - but nobody knows of men who had to get their wives’ permission for a vasectomy, ever. This is not “have you discussed this with your husband and are you aware that the procedure is intended to be permanent”. It’s that he had to sign a permission slip, as if she were a minor. :eek: :mad: I …

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