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The most common contraceptive method worldwide is female sterilization. But at what age can you make the decision without regretting it later? Which method is preferable? And can the procedure be reversed?
“You’re only 31”; “You’re too young,” the woman, who calls herself Samantha, was told. A woman named Fabienne, who visited a gynecologist a month before her 30th birthday, experienced a similar reaction. Both women were already mothers, they had different motives, but the same wish: they definitely didn’t want to have any more children and therefore wanted to be sterilized. On the website self-determined-steril.de, she and others report on the doubts that their decision triggers among some doctors.