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Increases in women getting sterilization procedures were seen across the U.S. immediately after the Supreme Court's decision, but continued to rise in states where abortion was banned.
A direct effect of sterilization of Native American women was that the Native American birth rate decreased. [20] In 1970, the average birth rate of Native American women was 3.29, but it declined to 1.30 in 1980. The birthrate of Apache women fell from 4.01 to 1.78. In comparison, the average white woman birth rate fell from 2.42 to 2.14. [33]
They found sharp increases in both male and female sterilization. Tubal ligations doubled from June 2022 to September 2023, and vasectomies increased over three times during that same time ...
Slightly more than 8.2 million women in the US use tubal ligation as their main form of contraception, [45] and approximately 643,000 female sterilization procedures are performed each year in the United States. [5] A September 2024 study found that states which enacted abortion bans following the ruling in Dobbs v.
An estimated 40% of Native American women (60,000–70,000 women) and 10% of Native American men in the United States underwent sterilization in the 1970s. [118] A General Accounting Office (GAO) report in 1976 found that 3,406 Native American women, 3,000 of which were of childbearing age, [ 119 ] were sterilized by the Indian Health Service ...
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists ranks sterilization, both female and male, as one of the most effective forms of birth control, with the procedures resulting in fewer than ...
The most recent abuse of family planning systems was highlighted by the death of 15 lower-class women in a sterilization center in Chhattisgarh in 2014. [99] Despite these deaths, sterilization is still the highest used method of birth control with 39% of women in India turning to sterilization in 2015. [101] According to Human Rights Law Network:
Sterilization of Latinas has been practiced in the United States on women of different Latin American identities, including those from Puerto Rico [1] and Mexico. [2] There is a significant history of such sterilization practices being conducted involuntarily, [3] in a coerced or forced manner, [4] as well as in more subtle forms such as that of constrained choice. [5]