Number of Women Seeking Permanent Birth Control Increased 50% After Abortion Overturn

People ^ | November 26, 2025

[Morgana]

The number of women seeking permanent birth control — via tubal ligation — has increased more than 50% following the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson case, which overturned Roe v. Wade, the landmark legislation that protected abortion access.

Researchers examined the number of tubal ligations — commonly known as "getting your tubes tied" — performed at four academic medical centers in New York, Pennsylvania, Florida, and Tennessee, before and after Roe v. Wade was overturned. They recorded the findings in a study published in the journal Contraception.

In the year after Roe v. Wade’s overturn, researchers recorded a 51% increase in procedures, “particularly in younger and nulliparous [people who have never given birth] patients,” the study said. “Fear of losing access to future reproductive options is integrated into reproductive decision-making, illustrating the wide-reaching impact of political interference in patient autonomy.”

“The Dobbs decision was an inflection point that made people think about their future plans,” Sarah Horvath, associate professor and vice chair of research in the department of obstetrics and gynecology and co-author of the study, said in a press release from Penn State. “More than anything, we saw that the Dobbs decision impacted the timing for people seeking tubal ligations more than it influenced the actual decision to have the procedure."

Tubal ligation is a surgical procedure where the fallopian tubes are “cut, blocked or sealed off” to permanently prevent pregnancy, Cleveland Clinic explains. The practice is “safe and effective and can be done at any time.”

[Antoninus]

The point remains, birth control does not equal abortion. They are not the same.

The birth control mentality is what makes abortion possible.

[Ignatz]

“It’s not anywhere near the genitalia“

??! You must be REALLY tall!

[metmom]

Maybe.

But that still doesn’t make birth control equal to murdering a baby.

[Antoninus]

But that still doesn’t make birth control equal to murdering a baby.

Who said anything about equal? The contraceptive mentality that children are a burden to be avoided is what creates the mentality that children should be disposable. The one inevitably leads to the other.

[Antoninus]

Look up the word “genitalia”. It is normally defined, “organs related to biological reproduction.” The word can refer to both internal and external organs, but most people these days just assume that it means external.

[Antoninus]

And I bet 70% of men here on FR have had vasectomies, or their spouse had a tubal after pregnancy.

You must live in a strange universe. I know a few women who have had hysterectomies after a particularly precarious delivery or due to uterine tumors. I don't know any who have had elective tubal ligations. I know no men who have had the snip-job done. But of course, practicing Catholics still value God's Word, marriage, family, and country above all else.

[Antoninus]

How many children do you have?

I have never used birth control. My wife and I have six kids (plus 3 more that miscarried early on). We would have accepted more if God had deigned it. We have never regretted this path--not once. And I have to chuckle when I hear my childless friends and relations tell us how "lucky" we are that we have such good kids...and then sigh when they lament about how lonely they are.

[Antoninus]

I had a freer life.

I have relatives that have made the same decision as you to forego children. Now that they are in their 60s and 70s, they are trying to figure out who is going to take care of them when they need help and become decrepit. The answer is usually, "Someone who enjoys my money but doesn't really like me." The "freer life" comes with a big cost at the end.

[Antoninus]

You type that with (presumably) a straight face, claim to be a nurse, and then expect me to take your comments seriously.

Sadly, they teach this kind of nonsense in nursing school. My wife is a nurse trained in the 1980s and 90s. While doing her continuing ed, I'll occasionally hear her break out laughing at some of what passes for "education" these days. All the abortion, rainbow, trans nonsense has nothing to do with nursing care, but everything to do with brainwashing the nurses. My daughter is an ER nurse and fortunately went to a good Catholic university for her training where they didn't feed her this garbage. But her colleagues in the hospital are all infected with it.

[kaila]

You are never going to get a guarantee of your children taking care of you as you get old. That may have worked last century, when having children was like your 401k, in that they would take care of you on the farm. Nowadays, you see many people in nursing homes in which family never visits. Having children by thinking they will take care of you is not happening anymore. Most of my friends who have children see them maybe 2-3 times a year as they live in different states. They may visit in the eventuality that placement in a nursing home is needed, but after they find a home,off they go back to their homes and life in different states.

[kaila]

No one calls internal organs genitalia in healthcare settings , and I worked in an OBGyn office. We call it the female reproductive system. Vagina, labia, clitoris, is genitalia .

[Antoninus]

You are never going to get a guarantee of your children taking care of you as you get old.

Of course there's no guarantee that my kids will look after me and my wife when we get old--like we are taking care of my mother, and like my mother took care of her mother. It will be up to them to live like the Christians we raised them to be.

But I can absolutely guarantee you that if you don't have children, you'll be taken care of in your old age by people who love your money, but don't particularly care for you.