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In abortion ban states, sterilization spiked after Dobbs and kept climbing

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The rate of sterilizations among reproductive-age women that July 2022 spiked 19 percent in states that enacted total or near-total abortion bans following the US Supreme Court's Dobbs decision in June 2022 .

A similar initial spike was seen across the nation, with states that either limited or protected access to abortions seeing a 17 percent increase.

But, after that, states with bans saw a divergent trend, with sterilization procedures largely level off after July 2022 .