Many doctors are not willing to give unmarried women without children long-term BC methods like the IUD or Norplant, "too risky, in their terms.
I read somewhere where a woman tried to sue her doctor because he gave her a tubal when she was 24 and when she was 35, she got married and wanted kids...the lawsuit didn't stand, but still...with liability insurance becoming so prohibitively expensive that amazing doctors are retiring
, I can't blame them for not wanting to step in the line of fire in that regard. I still think it's a pretty shitty situation. Sometimes, they are unwilling to perform ligations on relatively young women (under 30) who have had children!