Reply #82: "Privacy from her husband?"

[ljm2002]

See, here's the point: it isn't up to you, or to me, or more specifically the state, to decide for any person or for any couple what their relationship is like, or whether the wife *should* or *should not* feel comfortable letting her husband know about intimate issues. You, apparently have no problem with this because the law carefully lays out *some* possible reasons why a woman might not want to notify her husband. So of course it would be okay with you if the husband was required to notify his wife of a vasectomy, or if he had one reversed? Interesting, isn't it, how you just *never* run across laws requiring husbands to get permission from their wives for anything...

And as to your point about "if your spouse was going to have a surgical procedure, wouldn't you want to know?" Well of course pretty much everyone will answer yes to that question. The question at hand, however, is whether we want the state to *mandate* it. And to that I would say a hearty "Not only no, but Hell No!"

You really need to think about the broader implications before spouting off. Just trying to help you out here, so's y'all don't go and make yerself look dumb or nothin'...