This is the Guardian. The US Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade is a blow to the bodily autonomy,

the reproductive health and the safety of women and people who can fall pregnant.

The court overturned nearly 50 years of abortion precedent.

Never before has the court granted and then taken away a widely recognized constitutional right.

In roughly half the country, abortion is as of now or soon will be illegal.

Researchers have estimated that we'll probably see our maternal mortality rates increase by about 20%

with this reversal of growth be weighed.

20%.

Restricting the right to end a pregnancy has forced more conversations about pregnancy

and the role of men in this.

One of the issues right now is that there are only two

contraceptive methods available for men, condoms and vasectomies. So according to reports from doctors in the US, interest in

visectomy procedures has spiked since the draft opinion on Roe v. Wade was

leaked in early May. In fact, some have even called for men's

bodies to be police too, with mandatory vasectomies. Now I don't want to

spoil anything in this episode but it's a terrible

terrible idea and so today in Science Weekly we're going to find out why we're going to

delve into the history of

vasectomies, their role in society today and in relation to

women's reproductive health, and we're going to bust some

vasectomy myths. From the guardian, I'm Madeline Finley,

and this is Science Weekly.

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