Interesting (note: cross-posted to Menstrualhut)

[urania.livejournal.com]

... under consideration for use in the US: nonsurgical permanent female sterilization, as opposed to tubal ligation. I'm interested in this becuase the older I get, the less I want to have children at all, so it is possible that at some point in the (not-immediate) future I'd consider this.

http://sanjose.bizjournals.com/sanjose/stories/2001/07/16/focus1.html