“It should be viewed as a permanent form of sterilization," Dr. Christian Hettinger, a urologist at Kansas City Urology Care, told a local outlet. "It’s not something that’s a good temporary fix, if you will.”
“It’s not something I would plan to have done and then reversed in the future,” he cautioned.
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"We’re up 900% in people looking to get a vasectomy" since the Supreme Court decision was announced, Hettinger added. “Typically, it’s about three phone calls over a weekend," he said of the pre-Dobbs norm.
However, "it was 50 calls looking for vasectomies" the weekend of the decision.
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In Texas, the phones at Austin Urology Institute are similarly orbiting more often. Dr. Koushik Shaw, the institute's founder, said, "On Friday, we might see typically about 200 phone calls, you know, in general to our office."
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The Friday that Roe v. Wade was overturned was a different story. "We saw over 400 phone calls — about 70 calls within the hour after Roe v. Wade," he said.
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"I do tell men the caveat is this is reversible. But the success rate of reversal is 90% to 95%, depending on who you are, how old you are in the years from the time of your vasectomy, so it's not 100% reversible," he explained.
The Dobbs decision overturned the previous precedent set in Roe and returned abortion policy to the states. Many states already had "trigger laws" in place that were set to restrict abortion early on. Other states are planning on codifying the right to abortion into their respective constitutions.
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Since abortion is harder to access in certain states after the ruling, there is a restored push for men to get vasectomies as a form of birth control.
Lyon Lenk doesn’t take priceless things for granted.
“You have to give it some serious thought,” he said. “We just want the basics, to have this yard and a choice in how our lives look like.” One of those priceless moments is when he proposed to his fiancee with a family diamond smuggled from Czechoslovakia during the Nazi occupation.
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“We got engaged at the beginning of the pandemic because there’s just no one else I want to do this life thing with,” he said. “Kelsey is everything to me. I’ve never met a kinder, beautiful person.”
Following the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, Lenk decided to get a vasectomy due to his wife's medical history.
“We’ve talked about me getting a vasectomy,” he said. “I’ve got to contemplate what could potentially be a lifesaving procedure for the person I love the most.”
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