Tubal ligation, sometimes known as female sterilization or "getting your tubes tied," is a permanent form of birth control. (Getty Images) The overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that ...

Medical professionals sometimes try to dissuade young people with a uterus from having a tubal ligation due to its permanence. However, there’s no legal age requirement for getting your tubes tied in ...

Yes, you can still get pregnant with your tubes tied, though it's rare. Your odds are between 1% to 3.7% depending on factors that include age and surgery type. Becoming pregnant after a tubal ...

The long-term use of oral contraceptives and certain methods of tubal ligation (TL) were associated with lower levels of a biomarker for ovarian aging, suggesting an increased risk for early menopause ...

But you might pay nothing or only a small amount, depending on your health insurance. That's because most health insurance plans are required to cover at least one type of female sterilization surgery ...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to clarify Jennifer Drobac's title and that the 1973 Roe vs. Wade decision was based on multiple Constitutional amendments. Katie Rose Stempf lives in a ...

Tubal ligation — the procedure that blocks eggs from traveling through the fallopian tubes — is an extremely effective way to lower one's chances of pregnancy to almost zero. Here's how it works. When ...

A new study of more than 83,000 women in California challenges the notion that tubal ligation is superior to intrauterine contraception for the prevention of pregnancy. Tubal ligation remains a common ...

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 ...