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The Supreme Court’s landmark decision overturning Roe v. Wade sparked a surge of Americans to take action to avoid pregnancy, including getting vasectomy and stocking up on Plan B pills.
“It’s not for everybody,” Lyon Lenk told Fox 17 about the decision to get a vasectomy after Rowe was overturned. “Either I get this or we risk it [his fiancee] to be 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.”
The nation’s supreme court overturned Roe v. Wade last Friday, effectively ending recognition of abortion as a constitutional right. Urologists who spoke to the media reported that there was an almost immediate spike in vasectomy inquiries after the decision.
“It’s usually three phone calls in one weekend,” Dr. Christian Hettinger of Kansas City Urology Care told Fox 17 about one clinic’s calls for vasectomy consultations. “This past weekend there were 50 calls about vasectomy.”
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Overall, Hettinger said calls about the permanent sterilization procedure have increased about 900 percent in less than a week.
Another urologist in Florida, dubbed “The Vasectomy King,” reported more of the same. Dr. Doug Stein said he usually gets between four and five requests for vasectomy a day, but that number has shot up to between 12 and 18 a day, the Washington Post reports.
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“It was very, very noticeable Friday, and then the number that came in over the weekend was huge, and the number that’s still coming in far exceeds what we’ve experienced in the past,” Stein told the Washington Post. “A lot of the guys say they’ve been considering a vasectomy for a while and Roe v. Wade the decision was just the final factor that swayed them and made them submit the online registration.”
Thomas Figueroa is among a group of men who say last week’s Dobbs v. Jackson ruling overturning Roe prompted him to get a vasectomy.
“It’s something that I put in the back of my mind until very recently when the Supreme Court decision happened,” Figueroa, 27, told the Washington Post about his decision to get a vasectomy. “That was actually the trigger right there. It made my mind go, “Okay, I really don’t want kids. Now I’m going to get that vasectomy.”
But vasectomies aren’t the only current method of preventing pregnancy since the Supreme Court’s ruling: Sex strikes have also swept the nation.
“If we can’t safely go out and have sex, and we know we’re going to have a choice afterwards, why should we be expected to do it?” Caroline Healy, a 22-year-old coordinator of the event, told the New York Post.
She said men who don’t get vasectomies and protest in the streets for easy abortion “don’t deserve to have sex with me.”
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“I think it’s absolutely reasonable to hold onto the Holy Grail that people seem to think is important,” she continued in her comments to the New York Post.
Calls to abstain from sex have become so widespread that “abstinence” even trended on Twitter on Saturday afternoon.
Women have also been stockpiling Plan B, a pill taken after intercourse to prevent pregnancy, and other similar drugs since last Friday. Some retail chains have also decided to distribute such pills as people rush to buy them.
Volunteer clinic attendant Caleb Masterson poses for a portrait outside a Planned Parenthood location in Columbus, Ohio November 12, 2021. REUTERS/Gaelen Morse (REUTERS/Gaelen Morse)
“My first thought was that I would like to buy morning-after pills not only for myself but for those who need them because people will buy them and resell them at a crazy price,” Sarah McKenna, 21, told the New Yorker Times. “I have friends and family who can’t always afford these things and I just wanted to have a little bit more to make sure people who need them can have them.” Even if I have to send them to someone at random.”
Even before Roe’s overturning was officially announced last week, some women had already rushed to get an IUD, which is a small device inserted into a woman’s uterus to prevent pregnancy.
“We need to prepare for contraceptives to be targeted as well. At this point, the options are endless, so I’d rather be prepared,” Arlene Telles told Bloomberg after scheduling her Navy appointment following the leaked SCOTUS draft opinion. “As a person in my early 20s, I’m not ready to be a mother.”
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Conservatives celebrated the repeal of Roe last week, while abortion advocates protested in the streets, demanding easy access to the procedure.
Some pro-choice activists also targeted pregnancy centers, vandalizing the buildings and leaving thousands of dollars in damage. Vandalism also spread to some Catholic churches, including one outside Washington, D.C., which was graffitied with messages such as “This won’t stop” and “Separation of Church + State.”
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