The efforts are part of World Vasectomy Day, originally a single-day event that now includes a year-round focus and a host of activities in November.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Denny Dalliance had long worried about what would happen if he fathered a child because his job as a truck driver keeps him away from home most of the week.in June, the 31-year-old Independence, Missouri, man decided it was time to take action — and jumped at the chance to sign up for a free vasectomy.“These are grim circumstances under which I made this decision,” he said as he drove a load of cardboard boxes through Kansas this week.
Guarin also plans to offer discounted vasectomies that month at his regular clinic in the Des Moines area.“It’s a very particular moment in reproductive rights in the United States. And we need to talk about it,” he said, adding that vasectomies are performed far less often than the tubal ligation method of female sterilization, even though they are cheaper, have a shorter recovery time and require local, rather than general, anesthesia.
The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has been hearing similar reports from across the country that more patients are seeking tubal ligations. It is too early for any post-Roe national numbers on permanent sterilization, said Laura Lindberg, a professor at Rutgers University’s School of Public Health in New Jersey.Planned Parenthood, for instance, doesn’t have national sterilization numbers available for this year yet.
Dr. Arnold Bullock, a St. Louis urologist who does about 35 vasectomies a month said that before the Supreme Court decision, patients waited about a month for the procedure while the wait now is two to three months.In Texas, Dr. Koushik Shaw said his Austin Urology Institute saw a spike when state enacted a strict abortion law last year and another, larger one after the U.S. Supreme Court decision, so that it’s now doing 50% more procedures.
Dr. Margaret Baum, the medical director of Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri, will be partnering with Guarin to provide the free vasectomies. She has had many conversations with patients about permanent sterilization in recent months and said there is a sense of urgency.
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