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Tubal ligation has been touted as a permanent form of birth control, but a new study shows that women are more likely than previously thought to get pregnant after the procedure. The study, published ...

I had my tubes tied seven years ago at the age of 23. I’ve since remarried, and would like to have children with my new husband. How difficult is it to reverse the operation? Having the “tubes tied”— ...

Tubal ligation was considered serious surgery when Elaine Riddick Jessie and thousands of other North Carolina women were sterilized. Doctors would put a woman under anesthesia and cut one to three ...

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 ...

Military family members, reservists and some retirees covered by Tricare will be able to get the female sterilization surgery known as tubal ligation from civilian doctors at no cost starting Jan. 1, ...

There’s risk in speaking out. We journalists knew this when we signed up for this profession. We also have the First Amendment as backup to protect our free speech. But obstetricians, gynecologists, ...

A 25-year-old woman opened up about choosing tubal ligation and explained her reasons and experience while also revealing how ...

I recently read in The Colorado Sun that Centura-Mercy Hospital will stop providing tubal ligation services to women who, after a Caesarean section, decide they do not want more children. Sending ...

"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 ...