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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, allowing states to restrict access to abortion, interest in permanent contraception options increased. For example, Google recorded the highest volume ...

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 ...

A study from George Washington University found a significant increase in the number of U.S. young adults seeking permanent contraception, specifically tubal sterilization and vasectomy, following the ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) -- Since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the issue of reproductive rights has been center stage across the country. While it might be a hot-button political issue, it's also very ...

A bill currently moving through parliament would amend the criminal code to include forced or coerced sterilization procedures, classifying them as an act of aggravated assault that could be punished ...