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s/o spousal consent for tubal ligation. . .abortion?

For those living in states where you need your spouses consent for getting your tubes tied, do you also need consent to have an abortion?

 

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Re: s/o spousal consent for tubal ligation. . .abortion?

  • That i'm not sure about.. I've never asked, or had an abortion and i've never had any family members or friends have an abortion so I wouldn't know. I would imagine you would though..

  • So far I haven't heard anything in MI, consent huh??? That sounds not right to me....
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  • considering it takes two people to have a baby you'd think so but probably not.  there are so many confusing laws in this country i give up.  seriously.
  • I would assume no just because the spouse may not be the father, especially true in cases of rape.  I would say abortion is a seperate issue from tubal ligation although I've never heard of needing consent for a tubal ligation before today.
  • Don't know, but here in Va your hubby def has to sign for tubal ligation, but wifey does not have to sign for a vasectomy is what I have heard...
  • imagePrimaandGee:
    Don't know, but here in Va your hubby def has to sign for tubal ligation, but wifey does not have to sign for a vasectomy is what I have heard...

    It works both ways here.. they have to sign for us and we have to sign for them.

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    Interesting. . .don't know if I agree about the consent, although it certainly makes more sense to me to need consent for that than for tying ones tubes. However, I do think that unless the spouse will be a danger to them they should have to let them know they are having an abortion/tubal ligation. Then again, who are we to regulate honesty in a marriage? If you can't tell him, you probably shouldn't have married him in the first place.

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  • I just Googled it for NC and you don't need consent.
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  • Why would we need consent for what we do to our own bodies? I ditto a pp who said that sounds odd.
  • Spousal consent laws for abortion are unconstitutional and have been since the PA Planned Parenthood v. Casey decision in 1992.  Essentially, the court held that spousal consent laws placed an undue burden on the women who wanted to get an abortion without informing their husbands, and although the majority of married women would certainly consult with their husbands before having an abortion, the few who did not want to tell them likely had very good reason for not doing so.  Can you imagine a woman who had been subjected to years of abuse, perhaps including sexual abuse, having to inform her violent husband that she was pregnant and wanted an abortion?  Should the government have the right to force her hand in that situation? 

    Although there's been no national legislation or judicial action on spousal consent for sterilization laws, I'm sure a case will eventually make its way to the Supreme Court and they'll be struck down too for similar reasons.  Of course most people will discuss it first, but for those who feel that they can't, it isn't fair for the state to require it.  

    On another note, I think there was an episode on Grey's about this a couple years ago -- a catholic couple with six or seven kids had another baby and the wife begged Addison to cut her tubes during the c-section but not tell her husband because he was completely against any form of contraception.  

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