Harriette Cole: Advice to mother who’s done having babies draws forceful response

DEAR READERS: I haven’t done this before — run a whole day of your responses to a single letter — but I’m doing so now because you got so fired up.

Here’s what a few of you had to say about “No More Babies,” the woman with five children whose husband wanted her to have a tubal ligation.

DEAR HARRIETTE: If the burden on the body of a vasectomy and a tubal ligation were comparable, I think your advice would be (almost) fair. However, the reality is that vasectomies are less invasive...