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The only 100% effective sterilization surgeries are male castration (removal of the testicles) and female castration (removal of the ovaries); these surgeries are simply not performed for birth control purposes. Tubal ligation has a failure rate of .1% (one-tenth of one percent)1 This is about the same overall failure rate as vasectomy.
