Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In states with abortion bans, the rate of women getting tubal sterilization procedures rose significantly after Roe fell, and ...

New Mexico has initiated an investigation into the forced sterilization of Native American women in the 1970s, aiming to ...

After the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobb decision, which overturned Roe v. Wade and eliminated the constitutional right to have an abortion, many are reconsidering their birth control and pregnancy ...

Mercy Hospital in Durango, the only hospital with labor and delivery services within 45 miles, plans to stop performing tubal ligation, a female sterilization procedure, in spring next year because ...

Mercy Hospital in Durango no longer offers tubal ligations, the female sterilization procedure known as getting one’s tubes tied, at the time of cesarean sections. The hospital stopped providing the ...

AUSTIN, Texas — A staggering number of women are considering permanent sterilization procedures after the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, according to physicians and online search data. Searches ...

Researchers found a jump in the number of permanent contraception operations for young adults after the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dobbs ruling in June 2022. The increase in sterilization of female patients ...

A few years ago, Dr. Leah Tatum, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Austin, Texas, noticed a shift among her patients. Texas had passed a law in 2021, commonly known as the Heartbeat Act, banning ...

We turn now to India, a country that has long tried to curb its population growth. In the 1970s, India introduced a forced sterilization program as a method of birth control. Sterilization is still in ...

N E W   Y O R K,  May 1 -- Scientists are researching a variety of female sterilization techniques that will make the process as quick and easy for women as it is for men. The standard ...

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 ...