According to a recently released study black women who undergo tubal sterilization as a means to prevent future pregnancies are more likely than white women to regret the decision.

Tubal sterilization is considered to be a permanent procedure, while it can be undone, this only happens rarely due to a number of factors. And the chances that the reversal would result in pregnancy comes with no guarantee. Yet it seems that many women would reverse the procedure if it was possible for them to do so. The study in the journal Fertility and Sterility, points out that many black women regret having had the procedure done.

The findings are reported in the journal Fertility and Sterility.

Black women over age 30 were more likely to feel a sense of regret. In women under age 30 there were no significant racial/ethnic differences in desiring sterilization be reversed.