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  • Sterilization
  • In one method of tubal ligation, the woman's fallopian tube is clamped with a metal clip so that sperm cannot reach the egg to fertilize it. Both fallopian tubes must be blocked for a woman to be sterilized.

    (Video from Avalon Medical Corporation/The Filshie Clip System.)

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