But not everyone was delighted with Brockwell’s decision. The online editor was subjected to an onslaught of abuse when she announced that she wanted to be sterilised, from people saying she would regret it, to people being abusive and misogynistic.

“I’ve suffered horrendous attacks on my character, looks, career, even my partner. I’ve been called names that I can’t repeat in a family newspaper, and all because I don’t want to become a mother,” she writes.

Many people questioned why Brockwell wouldn’t simply take other forms of contraception, but the 30-year-old suffered on the pill, and has considered all other types. Additionally, staunch in her decision not to have children, she believes it simply makes more sense this way:

“I don’t really understand the abuse I’ve had for what seems to me to be a sensible decision. I don’t want a baby, so I’m making sure I don’t get pregnant.”

There has been a lot of talk recently about women deciding to go child-free, abandoning the word child ‘less’.

Woman, 30, gets sterilised on the NHS following four-year battle