Published today in a JAMA Health Forum research letter, policy researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Public Health and Boston University show how the 2022 U.S. Supreme Court ruling affected preferences for permanent contraception among males and females between the ages of 18 to 30. It’s the first study to assess how the Dobbs ruling affected both females and male interest in permanent contraception procedures. What the researchers found was that despite all the attention on male vasectomies post-Dobbs, the rise in tubal sterilizations among females was twice as high as the increase among vasectomies in males.
For anyone considering or already snipped, just incase you don’t know already: fallopian tubes and the vas deferens are both capable of reconnecting the cut ends and restoring fertility ON THEIR OWN.
Rare, but not unheard of for a couple consisting of a man who got a vasectomy and a women who got a tubal ligation to get pregnant cuz your inner bits don’t like being chopped up, and can be ridiculously resilient.
There are a few different techniques, but the factors boil down to: is the tube just being sliced and ends closed, or is it being sliced twice, a segment removed, and ends closed; and how are the ends being closed (tied with suture, clipped, or cauterized, or some combo of those).
The ones that have the lowest chance of self-healing also have the lowest chance being successfully restored surgically in the event you change your mind, but NONE of them should be thought of as temporary, cuz that ridiculous resilience I mentioned has an annoying tendency to not show its face when you actually want it to, and a reanastamosis surgery has a high chance for failure. For that reason, I’d personally opt for the methods of sterilization have the highest odds of actually staying sterile, and fuck the other factors… but that’s just me - weigh what’s important to you.
…all the dystopian reproductive laws and the workarounds folks are flocking to make me nervous that we’re going to see a not huge but not zero wave of things like unintentional pregnancies or folks deciding “it’s time!” and getting un-snipped to try to have a kid cuz this shit is so often talked about like it’s temporary / easily reversible, only to find out it can’t be undone.
Note that if you really want bio kids after either a tubal ligation or a vasectomy, than IVF is still an option. Both men and women still produce all the needed ingredients, it’s a lot less fun retrieve and combine them after a produce to ensure it doesn’t happen. It generally involved large needles.
But you can absolutely have your own bio children with a little medical aid.
A lot less fun, much lower chance of success and it costs thousands. If you’re not 100% sure you don’t want kids then don’t get snipped.
I’m 33 now, no kids, planning to get my vasectomy this year. But I’m not planning on reversing that :)
Not if you live in Alabama.
And possibly other states soon.
https://19thnews.org/2024/02/what-is-ivf-future-access-states/
Your username is perfect for this topic. It looks like a 1 in 2000 chance for the tubes to grow back together, but I couldn’t find any information about when that is most likely to happen or if it ever stops being a risk.