Urologists Say More Men Are Seeking Vasectomies Following Abortion Ban

By Samantha in Health and Fitness On 1st July 2022
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A Kansas urologist states there has been a 900% increase in men seeking vasectomies since Roe v. Wade was overturned.

The US Supreme Court overturned the iconic Roe v Wade ruling on June 24 and the ruling is in favor of a Mississippi law that bans abortion at 15 weeks of pregnancy - about two months earlier than what has been allowed under the Roe precedent.

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The justices voted 5-4 in favor of overturning the constitutional right for a woman to attain an abortion before a fetus' viability outside the womb - which is typically around 24 weeks.

Following this new law passing, more than half of US states have either already banned abortion or plan on doing so and as a result, hundreds and millions of women across the country will have limited access to safe abortion services. 

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The decision has faced huge backlash and protest from women and now it is reported that as a result of the decision, there has been a huge increase in men booking vasectomy consultations, according to urologists.

Dr. Christian Hettinger, a urologist at the Kansas City Urology Care, told KSHB 41 News: "One of our office managers said get ready.

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"Since Friday, we’re up 900% in people looking to get a vasectomy."

“Typically, it’s about three phone calls over a weekend, over this past weekend it was 50 calls looking for vasectomies,” he said.

Hettinger says he tells his patients the same thing - that vasectomies should not be regarded as a temporary solution.

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“It should be viewed as a permanent form of sterilization, it’s not something that’s a good temporary fix if you will,” he said. “It’s not something I would plan to have done and then reversed in the future.”

KSHB 41 News spoke to a man, Lyon Lenk, about his decision to get a vasectomy.

"It’s not right for everybody," he said. "Either I get this, or we risk her being denied a procedure down the line and that’s unacceptable to me, so it’s not a sacrifice, it’s the right thing to do.”

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Talking to The Washington Post Florida-based urologist Doug Stein also echoed Hettinger's comments.

"It was very, very noticeable Friday, and then the number that came in over the weekend was huge and the number that is still coming in far exceeds what we have experienced in the past," Stein revealed to the publication.

"Many of the guys are saying that they have been thinking about a vasectomy for a while, and the Roe v. Wade decision was just that final factor that tipped them over the edge and made them submit the online registration."

This ban will make the US one of only 4 countries that will go back on abortion rights since 1994 and not to forget that this will be the richest nation to do so.

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