{"id":260114,"date":"2022-01-04T08:40:11","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T14:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=260114"},"modified":"2022-01-05T13:36:29","modified_gmt":"2022-01-05T19:36:29","slug":"more-men-vasectomies-abortion-revealing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/more-men-vasectomies-abortion-revealing\/","title":{"rendered":"Texas urologist reports uptick in vasectomies, claims Texas Heartbeat Act is to blame"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A Texas urologist is reporting a 15% uptick in vasectomies, according to the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/12\/26\/men-across-america-are-getting-vasectomies-an-act-love\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Washington Post<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. The surprising reason, the urologist says, is the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/texas-heartbeat-act-governors-desk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Texas Heartbeat Act<\/span><\/a>, which restricts abortions to before a preborn child&#8217;s heartbeat can be detected (usually around six weeks of pregnancy).<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Dr. Koushik Shaw, who works at the Austin Urology Institute in Texas, reported the increase in vasectomy procedures since the law\u2019s enactment in May 2021. Thus far, Shaw\u2019s anecdotal claims have not been corroborated by widespread evidence. The Washington Post states that \u201creliable statistics on the number of men who have sought vasectomies since the Texas ban and the U.S. Supreme Court hearing aren\u2019t available.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet according to Dr. Shaw, a number of patients have explicitly cited the law as having motivated their decision. \u201c\u2018Hey, I\u2019m actually here because some of these changes that [Gov. Greg] Abbott and our legislature have passed that are really impacting our decision-making in terms of family planning,\u2019\u201d Dr. Shaw said, paraphrasing his patients. \u201cSo that was a new one for me as a reason \u2014 the first time, patients are citing a state law as their motivating factor,\u201d Shaw told the Washington Post.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>A false equivalency: Vasectomies are not the same as abortion<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Whereas vasectomies consist of surgically ending a male\u2019s ability to procreate, abortion involves the ending of a preborn human being\u2019s life. The idea that the two are equivalent is baseless. Tying abortion to vasectomies \u2013 saying that because women can\u2019t have abortions, men need to have more vasectomies \u2013 <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/abortionist-abortion-birth-control-best\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">gives undue credence to the abortion industry&#8217;s<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0false claim that abortion is a mere &#8220;reproductive health&#8221;-related surgical procedure.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/oklahoma-pro-life-bills-lawmaker-abortions-vasectomies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Several<\/span><\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/alabama-abortions-vasectomies-misses-biological-fact\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">legislators<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> have attempted to push so-called <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RepRabb\/status\/1444391395394035713?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1444391395394035713%7Ctwgr%5E%7Ctwcon%5Es1_c10&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fkeystonenewsroom.com%2Fstory%2Fpa-lawmaker-gets-snippy-with-proposed-vasectomy-legislation%2F\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cparody\u201d legislation<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> mandating vasectomies in a variety of circumstances in order to put abortion bans and mandated vasectomies on the same level.<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pennsylvania state Representative Chris Rabb introduced a vasectomy mandate bill in his state, including a provision for reporting men who refuse to comply with the law and a $10,000 \u201creward.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rabb noted the amount of pushback he got from the un-serious legislative attempt. \u201cI underestimated the vitriol this proposal brought,\u201d said Rabb. \u201cThe notion a man would have to endure or even think about losing bodily autonomy was met with outrage, when every single day women face this and it\u2019s somehow okay for the government to invade the uteruses of women and girls, but it should be off-limits if you propose vasectomies or limit the reproductive rights of men.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">But in fact, the outrage was not based in objections to men&#8217;s bodily autonomy, but in the insistence that a vasectomy is in any way similar to killing a child in an abortion. Abortion has <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/not-bodily-autonomy-heres-know\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">nothing to do with women\u2019s bodily autonomy<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and abortion and a vasectomy cannot be compared, either on the level of biology (sperm does not grow and develop into a human on its own; gametes are not human embryos) or on a person\u2019s rights.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>READ:<\/strong>\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/cnn-advocates-killing-children-poor-life-tough\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>CNN advocates killing children who might be poor because \u2018life can be tough\u2019<\/em><\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>Abortion as a form of birth control<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Linking vasectomies to the availability of abortion on demand implies that abortion is often used as a form of birth control \u2013 a position denied by abortion activists who have long claimed abortion should be \u201csafe, legal, and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">rare<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.\u201d But the subtext of the Washington Post story is clear: abortion is just another birth control option that, being no longer available, makes it necessary for men to surgically end their ability to procreate. It is a line of thinking that lays bare the link between contraception and abortion.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As Live Action News has\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/birth-control-abortion-connected-facts\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the link between contraception and abortion has always been good for the abortion industry. \u201cContraception creates a market for abortion by promoting promiscuity and providing men and women a false sense of security against an unintended pregnancy,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-planned-parenthood-manager-contraception-abortion-coin\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0former Planned Parenthood manager, Ramona <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Trevi\u00f1o<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. \u201cThe more people use birth control and adopt a contraceptive mentality, the higher the odds that they\u2019ll seek an abortion. Because, let\u2019s face it, if they\u2019re using birth control, a child is not part of the \u2018plan.\u2019 Abortion is the backup, so to speak, for contraceptive failure, misuse, or lack of self-control.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Abortion and the role of men<\/b><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The story troublingly seems to imply that, before Texas enacted abortion restrictions, men were willing to get women pregnant and simply expect women to abort their babies. Far from painting these men in a positive light as the story intends, the report reveals not only a chauvinist attitude of making the consequences of men\u2019s actions the woman\u2019s \u201cproblem\u201d to deal with, but also a callous attitude toward the life of a preborn baby in the womb.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abortion, however, is a convenient \u201cout\u201d to these responsibilities at the expense of the woman and preborn child. \u201cThe quality of life for millions of men will be adversely affected if this right [to abortion] is taken from women,\u201d<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">one filmmaker told the Washington Post after documenting the co-founder of \u201cWorld Vasectomy Day.\u201d <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Abortion allows men to avoid responsibilities for a child <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">who already exists<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> though not yet born,\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and leaves women to shoulder the burden \u2013 emotional, physical, and frequently financial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Men, of course, have no more of a right to take the life of a preborn baby than anyone else does \u2014\u00a0a fact attested to in the 38 states that have specific <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncsl.org\/research\/health\/fetal-homicide-state-laws.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">fetal homicide laws<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to prosecute the murders of pregnant women as double homicides. Making this issue, as representative Rabb and others do, an argument about whether men or women have more bodily autonomy ignores the fact that abortion is the taking of a preborn human\u2019s life, who has his or her <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">own<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> bodily integrity and autonomy separate from either parent.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the Washington Post\u2019s story tries to show men seeking vasectomies as \u201callies\u201d of women who no longer have access to abortion in Texas, what the piece actually shows is a shocking lack of integrity in men that existed long before Texas\u2019 law, a callousness toward women and preborn babies, and a stark reminder that abortion is often used \u2013 or maybe even intended to be used \u2013 as birth control.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/liveactionnewsonline\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">\u201cLike\u201d Live Action News on Facebook<\/a>\u00a0for more pro-life news and commentary!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Texas urologist is reporting a 15% uptick in vasectomies, according to the Washington Post. 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