Please, For The Love Of God, Don’t Let the Supreme Court Rush You Into a Vasectomy

With the likely demise of abortion rights as we know them, many penis-havers are considering vasectomies, with internet searches for the term spiking.

It's a pretty serious surgery that involves cutting and closing the vas deferens so that no sperm can travel through them, and it's not easy to reverse.

Many seem to think it is. Remember the scene in The Office where Steve Carrell's character, Michael Scott, alludes to an alarming number of vasectomies and reversals?

When you said you wanted me to have a vasectomy, what did I do? When you said you didn't want to have kids? Who reversed it?

Snip, snap! You must snap! He cries. You don't know the physical toll that three vasectomies have on a person.

It is a serious proposition to reverse a vasectomy.

The draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe first dropped, so please stop spreading the lie that vasectomies are irreversible. Vasectomies should be considered permanent.

That concern is not overstated. People online laud the fakeease of reversing the procedure.

The science behind the procedure is different than the meme.

Vasectomies are reversible, but reversal, like vasectomies themselves, aren't 100 percent effective. Unlike the initial procedure, reversals aren't typically covered by insurance.

According to the report, vasectomies are an inexpensive procedure. Even without insurance, it can be free, and even a vasectomy reversal can be done.

Vasectomies are a far cry from a hysterectomy, but they are a much more intrusive form of birth control than condoms, IUDs, or hormonal birth control pills.

Over time, reversals become less likely to succeed.

After a vasectomy reversal, it can take a couple of turnovers of sperm reserve, or six to nine months, before sperm count returns to a level where getting pregnant is optimal.

The factors that determine the success of the reversal depend on how far out the patient is from the time of the dissection.

The chances of the reversal become less likely if the vasectomy was done more than 10 years out.

I get that people with uteruses get the end of the stick when it comes to abortion access, but I don't think it's fair to everyone.

Now would be a great time for pharmaceutical companies and their allies in Congress and the Food and Drug Administration to start pushing for consumer access to male birth control pills.

There is more on vasectomies.

People are starting to risk doing their own abortions.