No, Let’s Not Get Sterilized

For previous generations, sexual responsibility meant acknowledging the consequences of sex and living accordingly. Today, it seems that sexual responsibility means using technology to avoid or manipulate those consequences.

In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson — the ruling that overturned constitutionally guaranteed access to abortion — demand for sterilization procedures sharply increased. One urologist reported a tripling in vasectomy requests, explaining to Bloomberg that what’s driving the demand is the desire “to remain pregnancy-free, because now you cannot reverse a pregnancy as easily as you could before.” It ought to be no surprise that those who think abortion is “reversing a pregnancy” also view sterilization as an ingenious feat of human progress.