PERSONAL STORY: JANET ZECHMy name is Janet and I'm angry. I have a very short story to tell but I think it says a lot. All I'm asking for is some input. It doesn't matter if it is for or against my view in this matter. I just need some opinions. I need to heal. It will be difficult because I feel right in the way I feel. When I was 22/23 years of age, pregnant with my second child and in the middle of a divorce, I told my doctor I wanted a tubal ligation. I said that if the baby was a girl and she appeared healthy then to do it. Now to me, a tubal ligation meant the doctor cut your tubes and tied them off. I'm pretty sure thats what most women think a tubal ligation is. This was in 1980. The only thing my doctor said to me about it was that it wasn't reversible. That's what they said about tubals then except that they could be reversed but not with guarantee of pregnancy afterwards. I thought nothing was amiss about it. Four months later my first child, Shane (my Son), died from meningitis. I returned to my doctor and told him I wanted him to reattach my tubes. He THEN told me he couldn't because he had cut them and taken them out of my body. There wasn't anything to reattach. Where on God's green earth did this procedure come from and who told doctors they could do what they wanted to with another person's body without telling them? Janet Zech |