After US abortion rights were curtailed, more women are opting for sterilisation. Tubal sterilisations (having tubes tied) increased in all states following the 2022 US Supreme Court decision that overturned the federal constitutional right to abortion (n = nearly 5 million women).
https://www.scimex.org/newsfeed/after-us-abortion-rights-were-curtailed-more-women-are-opting-for-sterilisation
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I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/2823625
From the linked article:
US scientists say tubal sterilisations among women, colloquially known as ‘having your tubes tied’, increased in all states following the 2022 US Supreme Court decision that overturned the federal constitutional right to abortion. Abortion is now regulated by individual states, and sterilisation rates have increased the most in states that have banned or restricted abortion, the experts say. In states which have protected abortion, sterilisations increased initially following the Supreme Court decision, but not in the months since, they add. The study included nearly 5 million women from a range of US states with differing abortion laws.