HELENA, Mont. — Sophia Ferst remembers her reaction to learning that the Supreme Court had overturned : She needed to get sterilized. This story also ran on .
It can be . Within a week, she asked her provider about getting the procedure done. Ferst, 28, said she has always known she doesn’t want kids.
She also worries about getting pregnant as the result of a sexual assault then being unable to access abortion services. “That’s not a crazy concept anymore,” she said. “I think kids are really fun.
I even see kids in my therapy practice, but, however, I understand that children are a big commitment,” she said. In Montana, where Ferst lives, lawmakers have passed several , which have been tied up in court. Forty-one states on abortion, according to the Guttmacher Institute, and anti-abortion groups access in recent years.
After was overturned in June 2022, doctors said a like Ferst started asking for permanent birth control like tubal ligations, in which the fallopian tubes are removed, or vasectomies. New research published this spring in JAMA Health Forum shows how big that wave of young people is nationally. Subscribe to KFF Health News' free Morning Briefing.
University of Pittsburgh researcher Jackie Ellison and her co-authors , a national medical record database, to look at how many 18- to 30-year-olds were getting sterilized before and after the ruling. They found in both male and female sterilization. from June 2022 to September 2023, and vasectomies increa.
