A 25-year-old TikToker revealed that she has finally been sterilized following a six-year struggle in which she sought the services of dozens of medics to no avail.
Abby Ramsay, who hails from Los Angeles, California, told her TikTok audience that she knew by the time she was 16 that she didn't want to have children - she simply didn't want the responsibility of raising a kid.
She then made the decision to seek surgery to ensure that she would never conceive after struggling with other forms of contraception.
However, numerous doctors decided she was too young to make such a permanent decision about her body and advised her to try therapy instead.
Check out her sterilization celebration video below:After six whole years of pursuing a sterilization procedure, she has now gotten her wish.
And in a viral video posted to TikTok last month, Abby is seen approaching a box with "Congratulations" written on it. She lifts the lid, and removes the paperwork confirming her sterilization.
She captioned the video: "I’m excited to take control of my own body. I’m not a baby maker. #childfree #childfreebychoice #sterilization #celebration."
The video has since racked up nearly 4 million views, more than 600,000 likes and thousands of comments at the time of writing.
One person took to the comments to write: "I’ll never understand why for them we are old enough to have kids, be married and work a 9to5 job but not to decided to not have children. Congrats!"
Another agreed: "it's sad that woman have to fight so hard for something like this."
A third shared: "I’m pregnant with my 3rd child and will be 3rd c section yet they still won’t sterilise me after!! How did you get a doctor to agree?!"
A fourth commenter said: "I just got mine done yesterday and am currently in recovery and very excited to enjoy my new baby free life."
A final person wrote: "I see this as an absolute win why would anyone be against this in general why make someone be a mom if they don’t wanna."
