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Getting your tubes tied is not the most appealing phrase, but it's way more user-friendly than sterilization. Maybe that's why the maker of Essure--a newer, cheaper, faster, scalpel-free alternative to tubal ligation--is marketing the procedure as "permanent birth control...
Unlike some tubal-ligation methods, Essure cannot be reversed. One general concern among doctors is that women who choose to get sterilized might later change their minds. In a study in Obstetrics & Gynecology of 11,232 women who had been voluntarily sterilized, 20% of those who were younger than 30 at the time of the operation felt regret later, compared with 6% of those who were older than 30. Bennett, who stopped performing tubal ligations a year ago and now sterilizes only with Essure, says, "The most important job we have is to make sure people are absolutely certain...
...possible. Carrie reluctantly ruled it out, even before she met Suj, when her mother told her, correctly, that she would have a high risk of bearing a child with DS. "I just burst into tears," she recalls, "and then I said I would not have any children." A tubal ligation ensured the decision. But she says she and her new husband have other dreams to sustain them: "To continue with our speeches, to continue to make a difference in this world for people with special needs, to have some fun time too. And to take care of each other...
Publication of the study will do more than tweak public awareness; it will enlighten doctors who have urged cousin couples not to have children. "Just this week," says Bennett, "I saw a 23-year-old woman who had had a tubal ligation because her parents were cousins and her doctor told her she shouldn't have children." The study cites the case of "Amy," who had been in a relationship with her cousin for two years when, in 1996, she became pregnant. Her doctor suggested an abortion, and after a fruitless search for more information, she had the procedure. This...
TYING THE KNOT Heard that tubal sterilization means having to live with difficult menstrual periods? Not so, finds the largest study yet on the topic. Women who underwent the contraceptive procedure--in which the Fallopian tubes are tied, cauterized or clamped--were compared with women in a control group. Result? No difference was found in menstrual pain, amount of bleeding or length of cycle...