U.S. has seen a meteoric rise in the number of sterilizations as a means of contraception since the constitutional guarantee of the right to abortion was struck down at the federal level two years ago.
Around twenty American states have banned or severely restricted access to abortion voluntary termination of pregnancy (abortion) The issue of abortion has since become a central theme of the presidential campaign which pits Republican Donald Trump against outgoing Democratic President Joe Biden. Women disproportionately suffer the health, social and economic consequences of abortion bans, according to the study which focuses on 18-30-year-olds. The number of vasectomies among men returned to previous trends, while the rate of tubal ligations among women continued to increase more rapidly than before the Supreme Court's decision, note the researchers. However, sterilization procedures are much more complex and two to six times more expensive for women than for men, the study authors point out in the press release. The study was published Friday by the University of Pittsburgh.