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Venezuela's food shortages, inflation and crumbling medical sector have become such a source of anguish that a growing number of young women are reluctantly opting for sterilizations rather than face the hardship of pregnancy and child-rearing. Traditional contraceptives like condoms or birth control pills have virtually vanished from store shelves, pushing women towards the hard-to-reverse surgery. While no recent national statistics on sterilizations are available, doctors and health workers say demand for the procedure is growing. Here: Oleydy Canizalez (R), 29, looks at her son Luis, 3, while he eats lunch, before her sterilization surgery, at their home in Charallave, Venezuela July 7, 2016. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)
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