Liberal women are undergoing sterilization procedures in response to Donald Trump’s election victory, according to Newsweek.
Newsweek spoke to five women who said they are so concerned about women’s rights under another Trump admin that they’ve chosen to have themselves sterilized.
“If I am to be denied any rights in the next four (or more) years, I will not give them up without a fight,” one woman from Texas told the outlet.
Another woman said, “I am not happy that I felt forced into a surgery I did not want to alter my body, I feel like the election tied my hands and forced me to be sterilized—that is horrible.”
The husband of one of the women interview had already had a vasectomy.
As Newsweek notes, abortion and reproductive rights were a major issue during the recent election. Trump took credit for the Supreme Court overturning Roe v. Wade in 2022, which removed the Constitutional right to abortion; however, the president-elect has made it clear that he does not support a federal ban on abortion.
It’s unclear at present exactly how many women have chosen to undergo sterilization procedures as a result of Trump’s victory.
In the immediate aftermath of the Dobbs decision, which repealed Roe v. Wade, there was a significant uptick in sterilizations among both sexes. Although the increase in the number of female procedures was almost double the increase in male procedures, the increase among men was still huge, and can only be explained as a response to the Supreme Court’s decision.
According to The Guardian, daily web searches for “Where can I get a vasectomy?” increased by 850% when the draft Dobbs decision was released in May 2022.