Reply #7: yeah my girlfriend (unmarried at the time and in her mid 20s

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and with a masters degree) in the mid 1970s had a hard time finding a MD to do a tubal becaue she hadn't had children yet. She finally found a MD who did it. It seems so unfair and stupid that someone would say this to an adult educated woman, but it wasn't all that long ago that women got this dumbass refusal. I think they wanted to check her mental state too because the MDs automatically assumed she had to be crazy. I think she went to about 5 MDs before she found one who did the procedure. We were both incensed at this disgusting treatment and I remember we joined NOW because of this and so many other anti-women things happening then.