Some Women View Sterilization as Their ‘Only Option’ Following Trump’s Win
“I am not happy that I felt forced into a surgery I did not want to alter my body, I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized—that is horrible.”
Abortion was one of the few issues where Vice President Kamala Harris had an advantage during the 2024 election cycle, and it was the only issue she could discuss with any confidence. As a result, she emphasized it at every opportunity, warning voters that President-elect Donald Trump would push for a national abortion ban, despite his repeated assurances that he would not.
Harris’s relentless fearmongering over women’s access – or rather, the loss of access – to abortion if Trump won apparently resonated with some women. As a result, many young women came to believe that a Trump victory would not only end their access to abortion but also to birth control.
Indeed, the number of young women posting woeful messages on social media about losing their reproductive rights since the election has been astounding. The day after the election, one 20-something posted a photo of herself on Instagram looking absolutely wretched. She wrote: “I am tired. My heart hurts. I just spent $300+ on OTC birth control and Plan B for the next year or so to be prepared for all of my rights to be taken away. I will not back down, but I am exhausted. I just booked an appointment at Planned Parenthood before it disappears. WTF are we doing America?”
As extreme as it sounds, some women who fell for the Democrats’ scare tactics have gone so far as to opt for sterilization. This idea is not entirely new. It began to circulate after the Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v. Wade in June 2022.
Feminists Get Sterilized to Protest Dobbs Decision Protecting Babies From Abortion https://t.co/7CagDGqiAL pic.twitter.com/1IyXL32eY6
— LifeNews.com (@LifeNewsHQ) July 25, 2023
Newsweek recently interviewed five women who have either already undergone sterilization or have scheduled the procedure.
One 39-year-old woman from Washington state, who wished to remain anonymous, told Newsweek she “underwent a bilateral salpingectomy, in which her fallopian tubes were removed.”
She said, “I am not happy that I felt forced into a surgery I did not want to alter my body, I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized—that is horrible.”
According to Newsweek, “Since she was a child, she has known she does not want children. She and her husband, who had a vasectomy in 2021, both felt that they had experienced too much trauma as children themselves to be the parents they wanted to be.”
She claimed she had “paid way too much attention to the vitriol Trump repeatedly spit during his previous term and am keenly aware of the people he keeps around him and in his ear, who all seem to see women as incubators and possessions to subjugate.”
She scheduled her surgery in October:
[She was] fully planning to cancel the surgery the day after the election, assuming Kamala won.
With Trump’s victory, we quickly learned that my choice to cancel the surgery had been taken from me. We both believed that I had no choice but to proceed to ensure that I can protect my health should I be assaulted during a Trump presidency, should my husband’s vasectomy fail and/or should my hormonal birth control become inaccessible.
This isn’t a wanted procedure, but one of necessity due to the politics and subjugation coming our way.
Lydia Echols from Texas, 28, told Newsweek she is scheduled for surgery. Echols said:
The next four years will go in the way of the Christian nationalists if what I have seen and heard and experienced is to be believed. Anyone who has…taken a look at the social tirade Donald Trump encouraged and employed during his years in the office knows that this is the time to prepare and be prudent for what could yet come.
I’d rather be safe than sorry.
Morgan Wood, a 24-year-old Georgia woman, feels that sterilization “is the only option.” She told Newsweek she “never wanted children” and had struggled with “serious gynecologic issues … since middle school.” She added that she “felt pretty certain that my body could not handle a pregnancy, even if I did have some huge change of mind and want kids, and after these experiences.”
Regarding Trump’s victory, Wood said:
I have no idea what Trump will and won’t follow through on. I was already upset when Roe v Wade was overturned. Living in the South, our prospects for protections and resources aren’t great if they aren’t otherwise ensured.
But talks of complicating the birth control and abortion access processes even further made this feel like the only option. I need everything handled, and ideally before power begins shifting.
Ashley Hedden, 36-year-old woman from Kentucky, “who is asexual (she does not experience sexual attraction)” worries that if she were to be raped and become pregnant, she would “be forced to carry the result of a man’s violence against my will.”
She said,”I have seen that this country will not protect people that can get pregnant, and have seen the reports of the deaths of pregnant women that were refused medical care. I refuse to be a person that ends up not being able to get medical care just because I own a uterus with some cells growing in it.”
And finally, there was Eden Ixora, a 25-year-old woman from Florida, who has made a “firm decision” to have sterilization surgery. Ixora claimed, “All the political noise is what really finalized my decision for me. It wasn’t just Trump winning but rather all the online rhetoric that followed.”
“For me it was a call to action,” Ixora added. “A need to get this locked in so I don’t have to live in fear that at any moment some random guy can completely destroy my life. For me the idea of getting pregnant is worse than death. I’m doing what I can to protect my right to choose. I am choosing me.”
Newsweek reports woman are getting sterilized and men are getting vasectomies in response to Trump winning.
The people who oppose putting America first are having less babies and less abortions.
The winning just keeps on winning. pic.twitter.com/abX1onq5fG
— Paul A. Szypula 🇺🇸 (@Bubblebathgirl) December 1, 2024
When Newsweek pointed out Trump’s on the record denials of a national abortion ban, the women replied as follows:
The woman from Washington: Trump lied through his teeth repeatedly and consistently through his previous term. There is so much documentation of him saying one thing then doing another.
Lydia Echols: “I am no fool. The men behind [Trump] will push for whatever they think is right and will lube Trump’s ears with what he so desperately craves in return—power and attention. I do not trust a word that man says, but I know the men (and women) behind him will stay true to their word.”
Morgan Wood: “I generally don’t trust politicians, but I especially don’t trust Trump. He is notoriously bad at keeping his story straight.”
Ashley Hedden: “I do not think Trump has an honest bone in his body. I have seen enough of Donald that I understand he says whatever he needs to say in the moment.”
Eden Ixora: Told author she was “not worried about ‘one specific proposal’ but ‘the overall societal temperature and the fact that we as a group have even allowed it to get this far where women’s reproductive choices are not considered rights.'”
These five women are a testament to the power of propaganda. They firmly believe that Trump will take away their access to abortion. How will they feel in four years when they realize they’ve been lied to all along?
Elizabeth writes commentary for The Washington Examiner. She is an academy fellow at The Heritage Foundation and a member of the Editorial Board at The Sixteenth Council, a London think tank. Please follow Elizabeth on X or LinkedIn.
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The reason that the structural-stability conscious founding fathers didn’t give women the vote is that women are statistically terrible voters.
So because some few deranged women go to an extreme, all women are open to attack. Nice bigotry.
Women vote for running the country like a household, as to fairness, equality of outcome, taking care of, etc. The incentives are structurally different in a country than in a family.
It’s the obsession to make the first comment, to degrade all women, that is the issue raised. You are comparing these women to ALL women. How dumb is that?
Only 40% of women follow soap opera, hence soap opera news, which constitutes the left’s offerings. It’s a huge voting bloc, which is why they didn’t want women to vote. The 60% ought to be in favor of that policy since they vote like men and so want men’s policies, not women’s.
Being oblivious is no excuse.
Dude, he’s right. You have no understanding of women and their beliefs, AS A POPULATION. Women, especially young single women, are the primary pushers of SOCIALISM, DEI and other destructive policies that ‘feel good’ but do far more harm than good.
Just look at what welfare has done to the Black family! 70% of kids now live in fatherless homes. That has serious consequences as Black crime is at epidemic levels.
In 2019, Black people made up 12.2% of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey). Blacks, however, represent 26.6% of total arrests, including 51.2% of murder arrests, 52.7% of robbery arrests, 28.8% of burglary arrests, 28.6% of motor vehicle theft arrests, 42.2% of prostitution arrests, and 26.1% of drug arrests levels
Yet when you split out Blacks raised with their fathers from those who were raised by single mothers, they’re NOT ANY DIFFERENT THAN WHITES AND ASIANS who have the lowest crime rates.
That’s what liberal Whites, driven by the views of liberal White women, have caused.
Except, as is his pattern, he was not speaking about “liberal White women,” but ALL women, DUDE, self-appointed authority of women nothwithstanding!
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Kitchen table economics. They vote when they see people without families vote to raise
taxes and establish programs that impede real growth.
As soon as women got the right to vote they prohibited Alcohol. Nowadays they vote for a Nanny State and government social programs.
Most humans are raised in a prolonged “socialist” environment where others (parents, etc) take care of their needs and wants. Some never leave The Next as govt etc fills the role.
If they do, maybe that’s a good thing. I sure as hell wouldn’t be going over my household budget like the male politicians do.
Speaking as a woman, I’d seriously consider giving up my right to vote if it meant that millions of women who believe their feelings are actual facts, are deprived of that same right.
No, it isn’t the reason.
Women didn’t have the vote at the time of the founding fathers, so it is impossible that they knew women were “statistically terrible voters.”
Your bigotry is a greater than your logic, so it’s your emotional fixation that drives you. I think its a safe assumption that know few or no women.
It was pretty obvious. Women have been around for a long time.
So much for your opinion of women. I take it you don’t have a daughter.
If he has daughters then he definitely knows the are emotional beasts at the best of times 🤣🤣
Not exactly terrible voters but more prone to voting emotionally about things. The idea Trump is going to ban abortion is ridiculous in light of the SCOTUS decision, that he is going to ban birth control is silly as he has never said he is going to do that and most likely couldn’t anyways. Stopping all federal dollars from supporting the Planned Parenthood abortion mills is something that should have happened long ago.
How would the founding fathers know that about women? They had no voting record.
“I am not happy that I felt forced into a surgery I did not want to alter my body, I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized—that is horrible.”
These people have never encountered violence of any kind. If they had they would know the difference between someone you don’t like being elected and being tied up and forced to do something. They are just mentally unwell.
Of course that is probably a good reason for you not to have children.
“Forced me to be sterilized.”
What a horrible choice! Close my legs or get an invasive surgery!
What a horrible choice! Have invasive surgery for an abortion or have an invasive surgery because I’m forced to not have an ………..:: invasive surgery.
It’s not about closing her legs. She claims to be afraid she’ll be raped and get pregnant, and then be forced to carry it.
Which is not a reasonable concern, even if Congress did pass an abortion ban without an exception for rape, and even if the president did sign it, but no one ever suggested this woman is reasonable.
You are the first one in every comment on this site to point out that someone did or didn’t say something.
So, where does it specifically say rape in her comment.
“should I be assaulted during a Trump presidency”.
Two of the other women also attributed their decision to an (irrational) fear of being forced to carry a pregnancy resulting from rape.
Actually you were the first to put words in her mouth. Words that she didn’t say and didn’t mean. You regularly do that.
I’d say it’s a very unreasonable concern. If she is that afraid of rape gangs rampaging through the streets she should stay locked in the house.
You are a true Democrat liar.
Here’s her comments direct from the article. Not a word about rape.
And finally, there was Eden Ixora, a 25-year-old woman from Florida, who has made a “firm decision” to have sterilization surgery. Ixora claimed, “All the political noise is what really finalized my decision for me. It wasn’t just Trump winning but rather all the online rhetoric that followed.”
“For me it was a call to action,” Ixora added. “A need to get this locked in so I don’t have to live in fear that at any moment some random guy can completely destroy my life. For me the idea of getting pregnant is worse than death. I’m doing what I can to protect my right to choose. I am choosing me.”
Eden Ixora: Told author she was “not worried about ‘one specific proposal’ but ‘the overall societal temperature and the fact that we as a group have even allowed it to get this far where women’s reproductive choices are not considered rights.’”
The woman we’re discussing is not Eden Ixora. It’s the first woman quoted, the anonymous 39-year-old from WA.
In addition two of the other women voiced the same concern. Ixora was not one of them.
I am old enough to remember when lefty women who wanted to rebel against the “patriarchy” got a ton of body piercings or tattoos, or dyed their hair some garish color (or shaved it off completely), or had lesbian sex with random women.
Now they spend a ton of money cutting out their baby-making parts.
No one is forcing you to have surgery. Leftist women keep saying “my body my choice” so surgery is YOUR choice. Not forced, simply YOUR choice based on YOUR misunderstanding of what Trump did after Roe v Wade. The Constitution says that if the issue is NOT specifically ion
the Constitution, it’s up to the state. Abortion is NOT in the Constitution so by LAW, it is up to the
states to make the decisions.
Or Congress. Which is what these women claim to be afraid of, but there is no prospect of Congress banning abortion any time soon, and Trump has been pretty clear that even if Congress did send him such a bill he would veto it.
I’m still wondering what the fact of Planned Parenthood booking a 1,400% increase in vasectomy’s has to do with women sterilizing themselves.
Great our gene pool will be better off for this. Offer incentives to those who have merit to have more children. It should be fun figuring out how to administer gthat.
She said, “I am not happy that I felt forced into a surgery I did not want to alter my body, I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized—that is horrible.”
These are really the sickest of people … ever.
Good.
If they’re THAT stupid and brainwashed, they shouldn’t reproduce, their children would be emotionally abused their entire lives.
Better that they take out their rage on their own bodies than those of children they might conceive and destroy before birth. Good riddance.
I’ve never thought of myself as being even remotely a ‘eugenicist’
However… that blue-haired person sterilized herself? Good. Can we get some more of that, please?
She (it?) has nothing to worry about. That’s a three-bagger if I’ve ever seen one.
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Four.
You need one for the large bottle of vodka it’s going to take,,,,
Nature’s governor would kick in. If you ever got drunk enough to want to hit that, you wouldn’t be able to hit that. Yuk.
Mentally ill religious fanatics, but should they have kids anyway? Imagine the harm they are to children.
Mental illness on display.
Darwin Award winners.
This is what you call being mentally ill when you make extreme decisions based on highly irrational assumptions and have tunnel vision and paranoid thinking. Unfortunately no one is talking sense to them and they will end up regretting their permanent decision to a temporary problem. That’s sad and yes that is how easy it is to manipulate people with fear.
Looking at photo #2 and assuming she is involved somehow in this movement (and not just a random piece of clip art from Getty), would you volunteer to be the one sitting her down to talk sense to her? Because I have to wash my hair that year.
It’s-a good thing these idiots won’t be having children, however, sterilizing women in there 20’s should be against the law
I didn’t want children either, till I did, age 30, had 2 and an ectopic pregnancy, world have liked the 3rd
I didn’t think I would be a good mother
I was pretty good…
You grew up
There’s a form of reversible sterilization…it’s called birth control and it’s highly effective.
Edit button for Christmas
Dear Santa…..
Well, since they believe in abortion, maybe Musk could build a time machine and send them back to their mother’s womb to be aborted.
Honestly covering the weaponization of government in blue states is far more worthy of calories.
Ferguson and Newsome are going to continue to purge- and then forget about the GOP every holding a House majority.
Blue haired female lefty incels are neither entertaining nor worth spending time on. Virtually every one of my nieces are pro-abortion, hate Trump, and not moving on either of those topics. None of them fall into this level of hysteria.
my kingdom for an edit button / spell check.
We can continue to hope!!
This just sounds like a win. Don’t need people that stupid to be reproducing, not that most of them had any worries about ever getting pregnant absent LOTS of alcohol.
OK.
Mental patients self-selecting out of the gene pool is a win.
Our own Golgafinchian moment
LOL, those 55 year old women getting sterilized. The other ones are doing a great job for natural selection. What narcissistic women. Sorry we really don’t care about you. You will be replaced by an illegal.
If not raped by one…
The menstrual brigade is on the march !
I kinda miss the psssy hats.
They made me believe that liberal women may have something going on.
Then I was awaken from my nightmare.
“…have seen the reports of the deaths of pregnant women that were refused medical care.”
Comment 1: Believing lying propaganda because you only get your news from one or two biased sites has consequences.
“I refuse to be a person that ends up not being able to get medical care just because I own a uterus with some cells growing in it.”
Comment 2: This refusal to take responsibility for your own actions which led to this or to think honestly about what is growing inside you is childish and shameful and will bring you into God’s judgment unless you repent.
Brainwashing works. Pray that God will destroy the ability of the wicked to do evil.
“For me it was a call to action,” Ixora added. “A need to get this locked in so I don’t have to live in fear that at any moment some random guy can completely destroy my life. For me the idea of getting pregnant is worse than death. I’m doing what I can to protect my right to choose. I am choosing me.”
If pregnancy is worse than death, why wasn’t she already sterilized?
So, she admits that she has sex with random guys. I how she at least doesn’t do it for free. Or perhaps she’s just studying to be a Democratic Party VP.
No, she didn’t admit that at all.
It may be that she does so, but there’s nothing in what she said to prove it.
As you mention below it could be that she’s afraid of being raped, with this claim to “live in fear that at any moment some random guy can completely destroy my life.” But it also looks very much as if she might be afraid that random, casual sex might lead to pregnancy. Which is a very rational thought. Of course, the rational solution would be to avoid the risk – not have random, casual sex. The irrational one is to forego all possibility of any future progeny because you can’t control your animal urges. Oy vey.
If she were referring to voluntary promiscuity then she wouldn’t say that “at any moment some random guy can completely destroy my life”. It wouldn’t be the guy’s fault.
Blaming “some random guy” for “destroying” her life clearly means that she’s thinking of the (minuscule) risk that she will be raped and become pregnant from it.
Because she didn’t think she needed it. She always figured that if worst came to worst she could always have it taken care of then. Now she’s irrationally afraid that she’ll be forcibly impregnated and not be able to terminate it, so she feels she has no choice but to make that impossible.
And she clearly can’t buy a gun for self-protection because of the irrational fear that it will shoot her while she is sleeping. The common word here seems to be irrational.
“Everyone knows” that possessing a gun makes you less safe, because you’re likely to be shot with it. The idea that buying a gun can make you safer is a right-wing fascist myth propagated by the NRA which makes money from selling guns.
At least in her universe that is something “everyone” knows. She doesn’t know anyone who understands that this is all utter bollocks.
Milhouse. Defending the indefensible.
I am defending the truth, against your deliberate lies.
Tough out here in the dating trenches. There’s lots of truly whacko women and a fair number hooked on the sort of feminist propaganda we see here. These loons are gonna be disappointed if they don’t end up in the handmaid’s tale.
The Handmaid’s Tale is the Mein Kampf of pampered, affluent Western women.
As a fun exercise, if one can still do it, go to match.com and search a 15 mile radius from your high school zip code for women +/- 2yrs of your age. I guarantee that ALL of the cheerleaders will be on the market. Twenty five years ago my friend described a class of women known as psychowhores, who spend the forst 35 years being the latter part, and when that stops working, become the former part. The reason that the Hot-Crazy Matrix YT video angers so many women is that there is a lot of truth in it, and probably as much truth in the Hot-Rich Matrix as applied to men. 😉 The only dating advice that I have given to my son, other than by example, is to avoid women who use a certain part of their body as a weapon. That never ends well.
“I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized.”
Can’t drive a car, can’t buy a plane ticket, can’t find the most straightforward solution to simple problems.
Channeling Elon:
“Thankfully, you lose your fecundity very soon. Your brain is too small,”
You can’t – no matter who you are… fix crazy.
You’d think hubby getting a vasectomy would have taken care of it. I am guessing they weren’t biology majors.
The husband having a vasectomy doesn’t prevent her from being impregnated by a rapist. That’s what she’s irrationally afraid of.
Don’t want to get pregnant? Weighing 400 lbs and coloring your hair to look like “My Little Pony” is an excellent opening gambit.
According to left-wing myth, a woman’s looks have nothing to do with her chance of being raped. Rape is about violence, not about sex, so ugly women have exactly the same chance of being raped as attractive ones.
Statistics that don’t bear this out are suppressed.
Maybe in this day and age she is subconsciously terrified that modern vasectomies work as well as modern vaccines.
Old and cold: neurotic, bored, frigid lefty women calling for the sexual mutilation of children in the holy name of “trans rights”.
New and bold: neurotic, bored, frigid lefty women getting their own baby-making parts chopped out in the holy name of “reproductive freedom”.
Since they identify purely by said baby-making parts, and insist that you vote based on that…
Does this mean they will now be voting Republican?
This is a win/win, any way you look at it. Less toxic, batshit crazy women having abortions or raising children and inflicting their neurotic nuttiness upon them.
Uh – most of these women did not plan or want children. So, what is this “Trump made me get sterile?” argument?
If not children are their choice, all I can say that some of the happiest people I know have 3, 4, 5, 6 kids. Like it or not, these kids for the most part are very well adjusted, speak well and are intelligent.
As for a number of women I know, while they didn’t get sterilized, they look back on their lives and wish: 1 – they had been fortunate to find a male partner to marry and; 2 – have more than one child.
There are a lot of barren 40+ women who watched “Sex in the City” and thought that it was a reality show. They all thought that Mr. Big would show up on their doorstep, only to discover that he had met and settled down with someone “less choosey” a long time ago and is now raising a couple of teens.
I will somehow survive despite the constants threats from lesbians that they won’t have sex with me and raise my children. The horror The horror.
Can you legally consent to sterilization if you’re mentally ill?
You can if the surgeon shares your illness and thus thinks you’re being completely rational.
Change your life over an election?
I didn’t like it when Biden became President. Sometimes you win, sometimes you lose. Just get over it and get on with your life already.
I cannot fathom what these women are thinking. Trump simply says that the States now have the right to define abortion laws. It is a state issue. Look back on Trumps record, including all the years he was a Democrat – abortion is not a big issue with him – yes – he believes women should have control over their bodies. He is opposed to any Federal Laws – either making it legal up until birth – or any codifying of the law. It’s up to the States. Several states have already enacted the most ‘liberal’ abortion laws to exist anywhere in the world, or that have ever existed. They allow a legal abortion right up until the ‘birthing person’ goes into labor. No other country in the world has such a law. Why do these women believe these obvious lies. I guess because they want to. It’s mass hysteria. They have no clue what they are talking about. All they have to do is move to Wisconsin, and they can abort their baby until 5 minutes before it will be born – simple fact. Sheesh. They can thank Comrade Timmy for this one.
They claim to be afraid that Congress will pass a nationwide ban on abortion, and that Trump will sign it. That’s certainly a possibility, but a very very remote one. Trump has said he won’t sign it, but they don’t believe him.
Its not a possibility. Trump hasn’t proposed that and no one in congress is proposing that either. Everyone with 2 or more brain cells to rub together understands abortion is right where it always should have been, in the hands of each State to decide for themselves.
It is a possibility. There are Republican members of Congress who are on the record supporting such a bill. There’s no realistic chance that it would pass, let alone that Trump would sign it, but it’s technically possible.
No, it isn’t a possibility. You think you are going to get every senate Republican and seven democrats to sign off on that in the senate? It is flatly and actually impossible.
No, I don’t think that’s going to happen. But it’s possible.
Sometimes adding a little bleach to the gene pool is warranted.
Proving yet again liberalism is a mental disorder.
I think these stories are fake and more propaganda. It’s very difficult to find a doctor who will preform a sterilization procedure on a woman; you’d have to jump through some major hoops. Additionally, their reasoning is out of sight wacko and the surgeon would be worried about a potential lawsuit after interviewing them.
The bizarre focusing on a possible rape. Is Trump going to unleash the rape gangs and the gangs that take away shoes? This whole thing is just dumb. Some people need to be smacked back into reality.
“the gangs that take away shoes?”
Seen ’em hanging from electric grid cables for decades. Never understood why.
And some people still resist my message that Progressivism is a religion. See the cult inherent in the leftism?
(Also, I think these people are lying.)
Abortions, sterilization, self-destruction….I see this as a win-win situation. If they keep this up I figure by 2030 this degenerate subspecies of the human race should be extinct. We couldn’t do to them what they’re doing to themselves–and all we have to do is sit back and watch them self-destruct.
Krazy kat ladies triggering intensifies?
lol
I’m not into eugenics, but for them I’ll make an exception — You go girl!
You go girl!
Hey! Be careful not to misgender! 😉
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