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 ...

"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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tubal ligation, sometimes known as female sterilization or "getting your tubes tied," is a permanent form of birth control. (Getty ...

Jenelle Evans recently decided to get her tubes tied, a procedure which is also known as tubal ligation Jenelle Evans is opening up about the personal reasons that led her to get tubal ligation. The ...

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 ...

More American women are choosing not to have children. Kelsey Silverstein, 27, is one of them. When she got married and realized her husband felt the same way, she decided to have sterilization ...

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 ...

Everything you need to know about the options, medical advancements, and legal access to contraception. Without ongoing education, our knowledge about birth control is frozen in time. In The State of ...

The woman who recently sparked a conversation on TikTok about tube tying is speaking out after she claimed a gynecologist told her she could not have the procedure done because she could change her ...

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 ...

Actress Shaffy Bello reveals her decision to undergo tubal ligation 26 years ago, prioritising her family size amidst her ex-husband's wishes for more children.