Methods of birth control that are available today range from permanent procedures such as surgical sterilization to temporary methods that must be used with each act of intercourse. ... The most popular form of birth control in the U.S. among married couples over the age of 30 is surgical sterilization. ... This procedure is called a vasectomy. Surgical sterilization is relatively easy to accomplish for either sex and is virtually free of known side effects, it is also 100 percent effective. ...

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Physicians, through medical intervention, perform this procedure to save the mother's life or health, to prevent the completion of a pregnancy caused by rape, because the fetus may show the probability of having a birth defect, or simply because the mother does not wish to have a child. ... In the second trimester or later a hysterotomy, where the contents of the uterus are surgically removed, can be performed. ... Many doctors refused to do the procedure so many of the organizations learned how to perform abortions themselves and administered them without physicians. ...

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Although the surgical procedure can be reversed, it should not be relied upon. ... Patients need to understand that vasectomy is a rather permanent procedure, although reversal techniques such as vasovasostomy are available. ...

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Induced Abortion are procedures carried out to bring on abortion. Such include vacuum suction, which the most common type- this is used in the early stages of pregnancy, dilatation and evacuation (D and E), induction, which the injection of abortifacients such as prostaglandin into the uterus), and hysterotomy, which is a surgical procedure similar to cesarean section used later in pregnancy, especially when the woman's life is in danger. ...

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