Though the teen has support from a guardian and said she is not ready to have a baby, a court upheld a ruling that said she isn’t “sufficiently mature” to choose.
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Post-Roe, more Americans want their tubes tied. It isn’t easy.
Faced with pushback from doctors, patients seeking tubal sterilizations are on the rise — and are spreading the word online.
