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.

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jan/06/permanent-contraception-abortion-roe-v-wade

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I’m not “naysaying everything”, I’m highlighting the very real role of socioeconomic status in these statistics.

a depressive episode (MDD) is rarely – if ever – enough to get a doctor to say that a tubal ligation is medically necessary, since it is considered a temporary disorder. depression is only considered chronic if it persists 2 years post-diagnosis, at which point it becomes PDD. even then, it’s not a neurological disorder like ADHD or autism.

that being said, this is r/science, not really the place for giving medical advice as a non-medical doctor.

other commenters have said there’s a list of doctors aggregated on r/childfree’s wiki who will reportedly perform these operations on younger, childless people. that’s a much better solution than to get diagnosed with a mood disorder if you don’t have one

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Of course the best solution is just to whine that everything is too expensive and give no work arounds. You’ve made me see the error of my ways.