These women want to be sterilised — they have to fight the law, their country, family and history

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1. The amount of hoops women here have to jump through for a bisalp is staggering, not to mention the cost (As it isn’t covered by insurance). Even when I got my vasectomy, it was easier to just do it overseas because doctors here aren’t keen on doing it for men with no kids. Women have it even worse than that though.

   An unmarried friend of mine had to get a written letter from parents, despite being an adult, that they agreed to the procedure. It is absolutely crazy.

2. Can’t they be happy housewives like all the others? Tsssk. I thought Japanese women were the happiest in the world.

3. Japan has 160+mln people. 4 of them in the picture want to be sterilized, bcs different personal reasons. Let’s say that number is bigger, for example, x100 or x1000 more. They could easily write requests to women’s NGOs to receive money for one operation trip to another country. Or any kind of fundraising strategy. Or if they adults without children – get this done self-funded easily. They don’t have to `fight the law, country’ or anything at all except their great pride. I can understand those troubles in poor countries where it’s a option of self-defense, when people can find themselves in danger for no time and become a slaves of circumstances. But in Japan, they fight not only with law, country, family’s, and history, but with themselves, because instead of fast and efficient solution of the problem for themselves, they decided that activism is top priority in that situation. Like how many other problems they could already solve? They can do this legaly. I don’t connect sterilization with US debates about pro-choise and pro-lives or something, for me it’s just different. You can downvote me to the hell, I’m done. And yep, I didn’t red the full article.

4. Too bad it’s not 1996 anymore… they could’ve faked a mental disability and got sterilized whether they wanted to or not.

5. Just wait until they start demanding to be euthanized, like what’s happening in Canada and the bad parts of Europe.