Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Tubal ligation, sometimes known as female sterilization or "getting your tubes tied," is a permanent form of birth control. (Getty ...

"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 ...

She told her partner who laughed and asked her how she could possibly be pregnant... then the pregnancy test lit up with a positive result immediately. A tubal ligation is a surgical, keyhole ...

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 ...

Jenelle Evans recently decided to get her tubes tied, a procedure which is also known as tubal ligation Maria Pasquini is a Senior News Editor for PEOPLE, covering Human Interest. She has been with ...

When women decide they are done having children there are many options to prevent pregnancy. One of the most popular choices is tubal ligation, more commonly referred to as having your tubes tied.

Short of abstinence, no birth control method is ever 100% guaranteed to prevent pregnancy. Even when it comes to "getting your tubes tied" in a procedure called tubal ligation. Tubal ligation is not ...

The woman who recently sparked a conversation on TikTok about tube tying is speaking out after she claimed a gynecologist told her she could not have the procedure done because she could change her ...

The overturning of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court case that guaranteed the right to an abortion on a federal level, has caused many women across the country to take a closer look at their birth ...