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That's something else I wondered; What happens to the eggs? I mean, do they just build up on the other side of the fallopian tubes? Are they absorbed after a certain amount of time?

I don't know what happens to the eggs, I don't think they would just go into early menopause. Far as I know the body will stil release the eggs.

And scar tissue can be bad and cause higher risk of ectopic pregnancies (I've been studying things like endometriosis which often involves scar tissue which builds up over time). But this is also different.

I was talking about scar tissue in general, not the procedure (so you don't get confused).

Except that there's a failure rate on it, which means you can get pregnant. It's very, very low, but if that can happen, then I would think ectopic pregnancies would be a higher risk than normal.

This sort of thing was recently brought up in my Biology class. Apparently, its a less-common (though natural) occurrence for a particular month's fertilized ovum to not make it into the fallopian tubes.

The fallopian tubes (oviducts) and the ovaries are not attached, so the finger-like extensions on the end of the oviducts sway about, usually catching the egg and pushing it along the inside (partially due to a current that's created by tiny hairs inside the tube - much like the same hairs in the ear canal that help move sound)

If the egg doesn't make it into the fallopian tubes, the cell will be broken down and recycled by the body once it is found elsewhere in the abdominal cavity. (And the woman might have a late or missed period) I imagine it would be the same in the case of a woman having gone through this procedure. But I'm not sure if making this happen all the time would affect the woman negatively somehow.

My aunt got her tubes tied when she was under 30 and she regrets it because now we are catholic and your supposed to have as many kids as God wills. So i dont agree with tube tying and sterilization anyway.

Your argument is faulty because it starts with the assumption that there is a God in whom to trust.

It is also faulty because it acts like we should trust God to do everything for us. God helps those who help themselves. Why wouldn't God allow us to use contraceptives in order to help ourselves? Children are great blessings, but not at every moment in our lives. I couldn't take care of a kid right now. I'm working full time at a minimum wage job at the moment, and I'm barely making enough money to take care of myself. I trust in God, but I also trust that God wants me to try to take care of myself, and that when I do that, God will guide my way.

Oh, and your last statement? About children not being a burden to society, society is a burden to children? What in the world is that even supposed to mean?

the problem is that society is threatened by people having many children. Just look at China. The number of children a family can have is enforced. Males are highly prized, girls are not. If you try to have more than the government regulated number of children, you are forced to get an abortion. If you somehow manage to elude the government and they find out about extra children, infanticide is then committed, while you watch, as punishment. If you try to evade the law, they don't just punish you, they come after your family.

What I mean about society being a burden to children is this. How many times have you heard someone or you, yourself, made a comment about how many children a person should have. Do you feel that people should only have a certain amount of children? Any more than that number and they are a 'burden'?

I personally am getting sick of the 'I want my cake and get to eat it too' attitude to today's values. Just because you want it, doesn't make it good for you and just because you want it, doesn't make it right. I look at it as one more way for the government to force sterilization on people. Now they have a quick and relatively painless way. They could even do it without your permission. Paranoia? No, not with the way other countries are doing it. I'd be surprised if China wasn't adopting this new type of sterilization now. Really what's wrong with learning a little self-control. Stop blaming hormones and desire and stop being so base. How many times have you made fun of a woman for wearing revealing clothing, yet done so yourself. All birth control, abortion and this new sterilization has done and will do is give men even more power over us. Don't say it hasn't. Now men will have one more way to get us to stop bearing their children. All those things have done and will continue to do is destroy marriage and the family unit.

Birth control is a fallacy, a lie. It gives neither control nor birth. It's not foolproof, it's not a total guarantee, even when properly used. Condoms break, the pill can be aborticient (contrary to popular belief, it's not a contraceptive as it does not prevent conception) and that's if it's used properly, and abortion is the biggest fallacy of them all.

It all teaches us to not be responsible for our actions. That there are no consequences to suffer. We need to understand that we are responsible for what we do and how we present ourselves. All of us are examples to others, we are all role models. Each one of us needs to stop letting society dictate our actions and thoughts when we know it to be wrong.

Society today places the blame on women for getting pregnant. Pregnancy is something to be ashamed of. Women are told that they must have perfectly healthy babies, else there is no point in giving birth. We need to stop telling women that pregnancy is a burden, a horrible thing, something to 'endure'.

Yes this isn't a perfect world. That doesn't mean we should be complacent with things that make natural human reproduction abhorrent or the process of it so base.