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Elizabeth Taylor, Part Two

The History Chicks : A Women's History Podcast

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I Don't Know What to Do if I Have Tuba Legations

Doctors told him that elizabeth was a very fragile woman and that she could not survive carrying another child to term, mister todd, is it ok if we perform a tu ligation on her? Sure. So when elizabeth wakes up, she finds out that she can never have children again, because he didn't even talk to her about it. He's caught up in the moment. He doesn't want his wife to die. And but on the other hand, she had no saying it. She wanted more children. It is horrible that she was never asked for her opinion. I am not at all certain that wasn't extremely common for that decade though. Oh, so icy.

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