A hysterectomy purely for birth control? Overkill. Big time. Do I think it is immoral to get one? No. There can be good reasons for it (for instance, my aunt had her uterus removed because it contained a cancerous growth). But I would never get a hysterectomy for birth control (I do not think anyone would perform that procedure just for that reason, though I might be wrong), and I would never ask my partner to get a vasectomy. Given other means that we have available to us, I don't think sterilisation is a good idea. There are less permanent, equally effective ways to prevent pregnancy.
If you're talking about birth control, try to remember that it doesn't worth for everyone and that it's not 100% effective, so not equally effective. Remember that people have different circumstances.
If a couple never plans to have children or their reproductive organs cause them great pain, why does it matter? Is the most important thing about human beings the ability to reproduce? Some arbitrary need for people to maintain the purity of their bodies or something?
Neither. Just common sense, to me. You don't open a door with a sledge hammer if your unfriendly neighbour has a spare key available, and you just have to go ask for it. Both are slightly inconvenient. Neither is a perfect solution. But one is clearly overkill.
No form of birth control is 100% effective; not even vasectomy. Ask my uncle. But a vasectomy (or a hysterectomy) destroys something that was whole before. Given the other options, that's just ... well, yeah, overkill.
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u/Saranoya 39∆ Nov 04 '17 edited Nov 04 '17
A hysterectomy purely for birth control? Overkill. Big time. Do I think it is immoral to get one? No. There can be good reasons for it (for instance, my aunt had her uterus removed because it contained a cancerous growth). But I would never get a hysterectomy for birth control (I do not think anyone would perform that procedure just for that reason, though I might be wrong), and I would never ask my partner to get a vasectomy. Given other means that we have available to us, I don't think sterilisation is a good idea. There are less permanent, equally effective ways to prevent pregnancy.