JTilly posted...
Practicing responsible and safe sex?
Mutilating your body to get at the Govt?
Realistically, a hormonal IUD offers similar contraception rates to a tubal ligation/ectomy, but that relies on a hormonal IUD being available. With the SC having already overtly said they're looking at striking down the decisions that guarantee the right to birth control and many evangelicals and other pro-lifers getting their panties in a knot over what they consider to be "abortive birth control" (a largely made-up term, but IUDs are often lumped into it because people believe they stop implantation of a fertilized embryo instead of preventing fertilization, despite the fact that that's pretty rare), there's a pretty substantial chance that getting an IUD might end up being difficult in some states within the next few years.
For those that know they don't want kids and live in a state where the future availability of non-surgical birth control is in question, sterilization
is
practicing safe and responsible sex.