r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Jan 06 '25

Health After the US overturned Roe v Wade, permanent contraception surged among young adults living in states likely to ban abortion, new research found. Compared to May 2022, August 2022 saw 95% more vasectomies and 70% more tubal sterilizations performed on people between the ages of 19 and 26.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/permanent-contraception-abortion-roe-v-wade
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u/Xyrus2000 Jan 07 '25

Get sterilized while you still can. The whole purpose of overturning Roe was to establish a legal precedent against bodily autonomy. They're already using it in Florida to push through a measure to allow forceful detransitioning of trans prisoners.

It is not a far leap from that to telling people they cannot get sterilized or get birth control.

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u/Free-Government5162 Jan 07 '25

Yeah, I feel like it is unlikely to 100% disappear but I would not remotely be shocked if eventually we began seeing restricting access, like saying you can't have these things or have to pay full price for them unless you have X many living children already, are married, or some crap like that. Birth control choices for unmarried women is relatively new, established in 1972, and was a Supreme Court ruling, so who knows where that'll be. Even Griswold got called into question when Roe fell and that's the one that allows married people access to birth control.