Leah Spasova, a British woman who was denied permanent birth control through the UK's national health service due to fear of regret, has won her case with the country's health ombudsman after a decade of unsuccessful attempts. The ombudsman found that a local health body was denying women, not men, funding for sterilization. The ICB, which covers an area of southern England, did not routinely fund female sterilization and cited cost concerns and Spasov's risk of regret as reasons not applied to men seeking vasectomies. The Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) found that the ICB's approach was unfair, inconsistent, and based on subjective reasoning.