NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Rural women, especially those without much education, are more likely to have their "tubes tied" in their 20s and early 30s than urban and suburban women, according to a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Researchers found a jump in the number of permanent contraception operations for young adults after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ...

Rates of sterilization procedures soared nationwide after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade and its constitutional protection of abortion rights in June 2022. New research now finds that ...

Female sterilization is the most widely-used modern method of contraception in the world, in both developing and developed countries. [26] Female sterilization can be performed postpartum, after ...

Sophia Ferst remembers her reaction to learning that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade: She needed to get sterilized. Within a week, she asked her provider about getting the procedure done.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Tubal sterilization rose 3% each month in the 6 months following the Dobbs ruling in states that banned abortion ...

Sophia Ferst (left) and her wife, Madison Bethke, outside of Helena, Montana. After Roe v. Wade was overturned, Ferst decided to get sterilized. She is one of many people under 30 now seeking ...

New Mexico’s investigation into the forced sterilization of Indigenous women will take longer than expected, advocates warn.

Voluntary sterilization—not the Pill, condoms, or IUD—is the most popular birth control method in the U.S. Among couples using contraception, around 25 percent choose the number two method, birth ...

HELENA, Mont. — Sophia Ferst remembers her reaction to learning that the Supreme Court had overturned Roe v. Wade: She needed to get sterilized. Within a week, she asked her provider about getting the ...

Voluntary sterilization—not the Pill, condoms, or IUD—is the most popular birth control method in the U.S. Among couples using contraception, around 25 percent choose the number two method, birth ...