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More couples opting for sterilization as method of family planning.
Byline: Lilian Liang
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. _ Every time 24-year-old Jatia McCrone looks at her baby daughter taking her small steps around their Sunrise, Fla., home, she knows fate meant her to have a second child.
Jayla, now a chubby and restless 1-year-old, was not a planned child, and not willing to tempt fate again, McCrone underwent sterilization surgery in July.
Despite all the medical progress with the birth-control pill and other prophylactic devices, McCrone, like thousands of others, decided on an option that is now the most popular form of contraception among married couples in America, according to a review of health care statistics funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHHD).
Currently an estimated 10 million women use the pill for contraception, while sterilization has been chosen by some 15 million men and women.
"Sterilization is an effective method of family planning and the most popular form of contraception overall," explained Dr. Michael R. Soules, president-elect of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. "It is not perfect, but it has the lowest rate of failure of all."
In McCrone's case, she didn't want any more children after her son was born but didn't know of any other viable contraceptive methods at the time except for the pill, which she took on and off because of side effects. And she got pregnant again.
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