Another woman, who along with her husband never wanted children, described her decision using language reminiscent of the dystopian world portrayed in *The Handmaid’s Tale*, where women are treated as second-class citizens.

Newsweek spoke to five women who have either undergone sterilization procedures or plan to in the wake of President-elect Donald Trump's victory on November 5. They all expressed fear their reproductive choices will be taken from them under Trump's administration.

"I am not happy that I felt forced into a surgery I did not want to alter my body, I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized — that is horrible," one woman claimed.