The number of Americans seeking permanent forms of contraception has surged in the nearly 2 years since the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization Supreme Court decision that overturned a ...

Natural family planning, barriers, hormonal methods, copper IUDs, and permanent sterilization have varying degrees of effectiveness. Family planning involves tracking fertility cycles and sexual ...

Female sterilization is the most widely-used modern method of contraception in the world, in both developing and developed countries. [26] Female sterilization can be performed postpartum, after ...

In the wake of the overturning of Roe v. Wade, more young adults in the United States took pregnancy off the table entirely, new research has shown. In Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization in ...

In June 2022, the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization ended the federal constitutional right to abortion and returned authority to individual states to ...

Tubal sterilization is thought to be a permanent form of birth control and is the most common method of contraception nationally. But a new study led by UC San Francisco reports that tubal surgery ...

In a world where reproductive rights intersect with personal autonomy, the decision to undergo permanent contraception stands as a pivotal moment in many individuals' lives. Bilateral Tubal Ligation ...

Barrier and hormonal contraception methods only temporarily prevent pregnancy. Once a person stops using these methods, the body’s natural fertility will typically resume. Sterilization methods, such ...