Posted on 01/21/2026 9:31:22 PM PST by Morgana
As states enact bans on abortion following the Supreme Court’s overturning of Roe v. Wade, Planned Parenthood is expanding its vasectomy sales, citing a surge in demand for permanent birth control options nationwide.
Planned Parenthood of Michigan has resumed offering vasectomies at its Irwin/Martin health center in Grand Rapids, with plans to expand to other locations this year. The move comes after the pro-abortion organization halted the service about a decade ago, but officials say renewed interest spiked after the 2022 Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization decision, which shifted abortion to the states.
“The demand is real and present,” said Dr. Kate Starr, chief medical officer at Planned Parenthood of Michigan. “Patients and their partners are looking for ways to control their lives and their families, and vasectomy is one of the ways in which they can do that.”
From a pro-life viewpoint, the trend underscores how limiting abortions encourages alternatives that prevent unintended pregnancies without ending lives.
Nationally, vasectomies surged 1,200% at Planned Parenthood health centers the day after Donald Trump’s election victory in 2024, according to Alexis McGill Johnson, the abortion organization’s president and CEO.
“Just the day after the election, we saw at Planned Parenthood health centers, a 1,200 percent increase in vasectomies for men,” Johnson said.
Pro-life advocates see the spike as a potential silver lining, suggesting that political shifts toward life-affirming policies may reduce the number of abortions.
In Michigan, vasectomies are available to adults 21 and older for $800 without insurance, including a $100 consultation fee, and are covered by many health plans. The procedure takes less than an hour, requires no general anesthesia and involves two appointments.
“There are patients in the state of Michigan whose only option has been being on a long wait list for a hospital-based procedure six to eight months from now,” Starr said. “We are offering access to folks who want vasectomy and also likely need reasonably priced care.”
A 2024 KFF survey found that about 1 in 10 adult men in America have undergone sterilization like vasectomy. In one Michigan health system, vasectomy consultations rose 150% and procedures increased 160% in the six months after Dobbs.
Cucks
Any elective change to the body God designed can later prove troublesome; necessary repairs can have issues, too.
I have experienced no problems in the 25 years since I had mine. No discomfort, no surprise pregnancies, etc. I'm aware that some men have experienced such issues. Nothing is perfect; you have to assess the risk/reward ratio for your own circumstances.
FINALLY! I’ve been calling for this for years. If PP wants to perform vasectomies and tubal libations, fine. At least they’re not killing innocent babies.
Five kids
My mom and wife used to insist on me getting clipped
lol
I’d tell em sure have Dr Workman come to my autopsy or funeral home slab and have at it
Remember to have your Leftists spayed or neutered.
This whole matter should shift to sterilization as choice.
If those men think that way, then it’s good to not have them able to create children. similar thinking women should choose sterilization too.
then much less abortions over all because much less chance of unwanted creation.
decades of arguing when by age 20 or so people could just make their choice and go get fixed.
I suppose that would require rational thinking and taking responsibility of choices seriously......
Vasectomies are good. $100 per IQ point below 90 multiplied by the man’s life expectancy minus 12. Example 81 IQ male 18 years old. Life expectancy 67. Factors IQ 10 = $1,000 times age factor = 49 = $49,000. In 50 years problems solved.
“This is the same woman who bought a live lobster, and “set it free” in a lake on Long Island.”
LOL! I remember that!
What guy in his right mind would go to those people for a vasectomy?!
My Father got a vasectomy and ended up being chased by women.
I am 100% in support of all liberals sterilizing themselves!
Nothing to get hysterical over.
My advice to any man thinking of getting one- MAKE SURE THE DOCTOR DOING IT HAS DONE A BUNCH OF THEM.
Yeah, it sounds like that. So, OK, everyone encourage your local soyboy to go “fix his problem”. Pick up brochures and drop them around your office and local bar.
AMEN!!
I was fortunate, my doctor was a pro: experienced, quick, and accurate. As I recall he used a cold/freeze substance for numbing, and it worked fine. There's usually some "bruising" so the scrotum looks like hell for a couple days, but it dissipates soon.
I won’t encourage anyone to get one, but can’t stop them either.
Buyers remorse in this case is a destroyed human.
There’s a big difference between having a vasectomy done by a surgeon in a hospital and having it done by a free tube snipper. I chose the former and had no complications.
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