Yet the risk of tubal infertility can easily be reduced.
She has since studied her options and decided on a tubal ligation: a common procedure, usually performed after delivery, that permanently prevents pregnancy.
Unlike some tubal-ligation methods, Essure cannot be reversed.
Officials respond to female inmate sterilization claims SACRAMENTO - A state official who reviewed a report that doctors contracted by the state corrections department performed tubal ligations on 148 female inmates without required state approval said the procedures shouldn't have been performed in the first place.
July 9, 2013 - News10 Sacramento
Report: California forcibly sterilized female prison inmates By GABRIELLE LEVY, UPI.com Female inmates at California prisons were coerced into undergoing tubal ligation -- sterilization -- without proper approval from 2006 to 2010.
July 8, 2013 - UPI