A new trend is sweeping the nation — or, at least, among young far-left women.As one anonymous woman from Washington recently told Newsweek: “I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized.”Seriously?Apparently, more and more women are getting sterilized, not entirely because they don’t want to be parents, but because Donald Trump won the presidential election.Citing fears about abortion bans and rollbacks of reproductive rights, young women are subjecting themselves to irreversible and invasive procedures to get their tubes tied. As a 24-year-old, I find this to be absolute insanity.Tying your tubes over politics — and before the man is even in office — is not just an overreaction, it’s living your life like Chicken Little, afraid of the sky falling.Trump has already said he will not sign a national abortion ban.These women are living in fear of a threat that doesn’t even exist.Or, perhaps, it’s clout? Nothing says ultra-resistance like pledging fealty to the cause by sacrificing your fertility.Several women who spoke to Newsweek claimed they had no choice but to take this severe route.One anonymous woman claimed she felt “forced into surgery.” Another, Eden Ixora from Florida, said Trump’s election was a “call to action” and described pregnancy as “worse than death.”Wow.
That’s pleasant.Young women today have the privilege of enjoying more birth control options than any generation in human history.Many have a 99% efficacy rate.Why not pop in an IUD, or use a condom, or get on the birth control pill, which you can now buy over the counter — yes, even in Florida — without even getting a doctor’s prescription.
Handy online services will also deliver them straight to your door.Yes, it is true that access to abortion has become more difficult in certain areas of the country, but life-altering surgery is a harsh first resort.What these women seem not to realize is that whether Trump or Kamala Harris wo...