NPR Blog Interviews Reproductive Health Expert About Popularity Of Sterilization Among Women

NPR: Why Sterilization Is The Most Popular Form Of Family Planning
“…[F]emale sterilization is the world’s most popular form of family planning. In 2009, 223 million women used sterilization as birth control and that number is on the rise. … For insights, Goats and Soda talked with John Townsend, director of reproductive health at the Population Council in Washington, D.C….” (Klibanoff, 11/17).

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