Yushan Ou of China competes on the balance beam at the Women's Team Final during the Artistic Gymnastics World Championships at M&S Bank Arena in Liverpool, England, Tuesday, November 1, 2022. (Photo by Thanassis Stavrakis/AP Photo)

Jake Paul (left) lands a punch to the face of Anderson Silva during a boxing match at Desert Diamond Arena in Glendale, Arizona on October 29, 2022. (Photo by Mark J. Rebilas/USA TODAY Sports)

Peter Carberry riding Gabbys Cross falls off during the Randox Grand National Chase during day three of the Randox Grand National Festival at Aintree Racecourse on April 15, 2023 in Liverpool, England. (Photo by Michael Steele/Getty Images)

Ice swimmer Klaudia prepares to swim in a filled up water kettle in an ice cave inside the Nature Ice Palace, with a hight of 3,250 meters (10,663 feet) above sea level, at Hintertux Glacier near Hintertux, some 480 kilometers (298 miles) western of Vienna, Austria, 28 July 2018. (Photo by Christian Bruna/EPA/EFE)

A festivalgoer enjoys the weather in the circus area at the Glastonbury Festival at Worthy Farm in Somerset, United Kingdom on Thursday, June 22, 2023. (Photo by Ben Birchall/PA Images via Getty Images)

Tara Davis-Woodhall of the United States in action during the women's long jump final at the World Athletics Championships at the National Stadium in Tokyo on September 14, 2025. (Photo by Issei Kato/Reuters)

A woman reacts as she attends Fet Gede, the traditional Haitian Day of the Dead celebration at the Port-au-Prince cemetery, in Haiti, on November 1, 2025. Fet Gede is the annual celebration when practitioners of vodou parade and believe to be possessed by the spirits of the dead. (Photo by Clarens Siffroy/AFP Photo)

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. (Photo by Carlos Garcia Rawlins/Reuters)