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More Women Are Seeking Sterilizations Post-Dobbs, Experts Say

“It is not surprising that some people will respond to the lack of legal abortion by trying to avoid a pregnancy altogether,” said Diana Greene Foster, a research director in reproductive health at University of California, San Francisco.

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