She said, “You should wait.” I think she was trying to be cautious that I wasn’t making any huge leaps for her. I told her I planned on getting a vasectomy. Wade, and I couldn’t risk her getting pregnant and then us not having the option to seek an abortion. Then last June the Supreme Court reversed Roe v. Why he got the procedure: My wife and I never wanted to have kids, so she was on birth control, and we used condoms. Nathaniel, 36, support specialist, Mobile, Alabama Six men who got vasectomies within the last year look back on their experience, the motivations that led them to the procedure, and how their families reacted. Abortion bans throughout the country and an increased focus on reproductive rights prompted men to take charge in their own family-planning decisions. Wade last summer pushed those considering the procedure into action.
Now, anecdotal reports find, younger men who don’t have - and don’t want - kids are increasing in numbers, and they are getting vasectomies to ensure this.įor many, the landmark Supreme Court decision overturning Roe v. As recently as 2017, only 4 percent of men who got vasectomies did not have any children, according to a 2021 analysis of NSFG data. A growing population of younger men who don’t want children, and who are deciding this earlier, are seeking out the male-sterilization surgery in which the tubes that carry sperm are severed. Within the last year, this demographic has shifted. According to data from the National Survey of Family Growth, between 20, the primary reason men got vasectomies was that women and their husbands or partners did not wish to have any more kids.
For the past two decades, the typical vasectomy candidate fit a common demographic: He was white, married, between 41 and 45 years old, and had two or more kids, the youngest nearly 3 years old.
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