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"When public health researchers interviewed more than 11,000 women who&amp;#039;d undergone tubal ligation more than a decade ago, a whopping nine out of 10 expressed no regrets. (This, I suspect, may be a suprise only to men!) Most were married at the time they underwent the procedure, and nearly all had made the decision in order to prevent future pregnancies, not for health reasons. Only one group stood out: Women who were under 30 when they&amp;#039;d had their tubes tied were more likely to be sorry; some 20 percent expressed regret, compared to a mere six percent of those over 30. The researchers speculate that the younger women may have remarried when they were still of childbearing age and regretted that they couldn&amp;#039;t have children with their new husbands; indeed, a number asked the interviewers about sterilization-reversal procedures. And the group least likely to have second thoughts? Those who&amp;#039;d never had children. Whatever reasons had influenced them to choose childlessness in the first place seem still to hold true for them, observes lead author Susan D. Hillis, Ph.D., of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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