Can you get a hysterectomy at age 24, if you have decided you don't want any kid!


Question:

Can you get a hysterectomy at age 24, if you have decided you don't want any kids?

If so, will health insurance cover this?


Answers:

You could get a hysterectomy if you had some sort of medical problem that it would solve, such as uterine cancer (very rare in someone that young) or excessive bleeding that could not be controlled any other way.

However, I think you mean, "Can a 24-year-old be *sterilized,* which is usually done via tubal ligation or a new proceedure called Essure, which doesn't require general anesthesia. Yes, you can get sterilized at your age. If you are old enough to decide to have kids, you are old enough to decide not to have them. The problem is that younger, childless women have a harder time finding doctors willing to sterilize them. I recommend Marie Stopes or Feminist Women's Heath Center: both of them have policies which state they do not discriminate against young women who want sterilization.




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