Doctors saw younger men seeking vasectomies after Roe v. Wade was overturned
Kori Thompson had long wrestled with the idea of having a child.
The 24-year-old worried about the world a kid would face as climate change overtook the globe, fearing the environmental devastation and economic strain that could follow. He had been thinking about getting a vasectomy ever since he learned about the sterilization procedure from a television show.
But "the thing that actually triggered it was the court decision," Thompson said.
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade nearly two years ago, paving the way for states to usher in new restrictions on abortion, doctors started seeing more young adults seeking vasectomies or getting their tubes tied, emerging research has found.
An by University of, found that after , a rising share of vasectomy patients were under the age of 30.
