For many women preparing for a scheduled cesarean section, the question of whether to add a permanent sterilization procedure creates an unexpected layer of complexity to an already significant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tubal ligation searches online have soared since Roe v. Wade was overturned. But getting one isn't necessarily easy. (Illustration ...

Eric Boodman focuses on narrative features, exploring the startling ways that science and medicine affect people’s lives. You can reach Eric on Signal at eboodman.88. To Rebecca Stone, the single most ...

Ashley Steffen went under the knife about a month after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, reversing the constitutional right to abortion. Steffen, 37, of Lansing, is among a ...

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 ...

Young women were also twice as likely to get permanent contraception procedures as young men following the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in 2022, researchers report. (CN) — The political effects of ...

"Getting your tubes tied" is a colloquial way to say that someone is undergoing tubal ligation, a sterilizing surgical procedure that involves closing off the fallopian tubes. In non-medically ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lee Thompson sat in a pre-operative room, bundled in a blanket and socks, and played with an adult coloring book phone app to keep calm. She had slept well the night before and refused to let herself ...

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June, gynecologists across the country have reported seeing an increase in patients who want to get their fallopian tubes tied. But it isn't always ...

They refused to tie her tubes, because she hadn’t tied the knot. A 24-year-old mom has set Reddit alight after claiming her doctor refused to sterilize her because she wasn’t married. The unnamed ...