Thursday, 8 March 2018

India #HerChoice: ‘I sterilised myself and didn’t tell my husband’

I had lied to my husband before but the stakes were higher this time. By the age of 20, I had already given birth to four children. I worked as a domestic helper while my husband spent my earnings on alcohol, beat me routinely and forced himself upon me in bed.

My mother told me I couldn't leave my husband and that this was normal. So despite the pain and the misery, I bore it all.

One day, my employer asked me what I would like to change in my life, and I told her that I was constantly afraid of getting pregnant again.

She suggested I get sterilised, and explained how this operation could help me. The more I mulled over this idea, the more necessary it seemed.


Source : bbc

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