Sterilization (human, elective procedures)

Surgical sterilization procedures are operations designed to eliminate fertility. In people, these procedures involve disrupting the normal channels that mature gamete cells (ovum and sperm) use for transport to the uterus. In men, that means blocking the vas deferens, so that sperm cannot exit the body. In women, that blockage is placed in the fallopian tube so that ovum cannot reach th uterus.