Tubal Sterilization Rates by State Abortion Laws After the Dobbs Decision

JAMA. 2024 Sep 11;332(14):1204-1206. doi: 10.1001/jama.2024.16862. Online ahead of print.

Xiao Xu¹, Ling Chen¹, Vrunda B Desai^{2

3}, Cary P Gross⁴, Craig Evan Pollack^{5

6}, Peter E Schwartz³, Jason D Wright¹

¹ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York.
² CooperSurgical Inc, Trumbull, Connecticut.
³ Department of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁴ Department of Internal Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
⁵ Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁶ Johns Hopkins School of Nursing, Baltimore, Maryland.

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This study examines whether the use of sterilization procedures changed after the Dobbs ruling by restrictiveness of state abortion laws.