"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...