Model Marriage by Bishop Dag Heward Mills

Model Marriage

6. Permanent Family Planning

This is a permanent method of contraception. The permanent contraceptive method for men
is vasectomy and tubal ligation for women. (See pictures below).

Things to consider before having a permanent method of contraception:

1. If a child dies the couple may want to have another child.


2. If the wife dies and the husband wants to remarry, no woman may want to marry
   a man who has had a vasectomy. Vasectomy is not the same as impotence!


3. If the husband dies, and the wife has had a tubal ligation, she may want to have
   more children in her next marriage. However, this is less of a problem than the
   above point.

Fig. 15: Vasectomy

Fig. 16: Tubal ligation

Laparoscope Fallopian tube

Ovary

Uterus

Cauterization Clamping

Constriction Cutting

The vas deferens or sperm

duct is cut to prevent sperm

from mixing with semen