Restrictions on abortion in many states are prompting some men to rethink their reproductive health decisions. Since this summer’s U.S. Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade, some doctors say they’re hearing from a growing number of male patients asking for vasectomies.
“It shouldn’t just be on women to step up and not have kids, you know?” says Dustin May, of St. Louis, shortly after his vasectomy procedure at a Planned Parenthood clinic. Vasecomies are outpatient permanent sterilization procedures that block sperm from being released in semen.
May and his girlfriend, Courtney Price, have known for years that they don’t want children.
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