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500K American men get vasectomies every year – a specialist explains the easy and reversible procedure

  • Written by Ranjith Ramasamy, Associate Professor of Urology, University of Miami
500K American men get vasectomies every year – a specialist explains the easy and reversible procedureThis year, many vasectomy patients are young or single men concerned about unwanted pregnancy at a time when abortion care may not be as available as before.Thomas Barwick/Stone via Getty ImagesGreen plate reading: 500,000 Number of men in the US who undergo vasectomies each year

About half a million men undergo a vasectomy in the United States in any given year. The percentage of men getting them had been dropping for the past two...

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