Female sterilizing operations in New South Wales: A demographic perspective |
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Authors: | Farhat Yusuf Stefania Siedlecky |
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Affiliation: | (1) Demographic Research Group, School of Economic & Financial Studies, Macquarie University, NSW 2109 |
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Abstract: | This paper examines trends in female sterilizing operations from a demographic perspective. These operations have declined in New South Wales since 1981, with a substantial drop in tubal ligation and hysterectomy, particularly among younger women. The decline in sterilization of women of childbearing age has been due to postponement of births. Younger women have avoided terminal methods of birth control and continued to use methods, such as oral contraceptives and back-up abortion, which allow for a pregnancy at a later age. Sterilizing operations still remain the most commonly reported means of birth control by women over age 35. |
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