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Rate of Young Women Getting Sterilized Doubled After ‘Roe’ Was Overturned - Clover - Jun 27 2024
KFF Health News, June 27 2024.
https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/sterilization-rates-after-dobbs-tubal-ligations-vasectomies-double/
Quote:Forty-one states have bans or restrictions on abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, and anti-abortion groups have advocated for restricting contraception access in recent years.
After Roe was overturned in June 2022, doctors said a wave of young people like Ferst started asking for permanent birth control like tubal ligations, in which the fallopian tubes are removed, or vasectomies.
New research published this spring in JAMA Health Forum shows how big that wave of young people is nationally.
Discussion on Ovarit.