TAMPA, Fla. — A day after a leaked Supreme Court opinion tipped the impending doom of Roe v. Wade, 23-year-old Lindsay Tagliere called a women’s health group near where she lives in Gainesville and inquired about getting her fallopian tubes removed.
“As soon as the leak came out,” she said, “I knew that they were coming for birth control, and if I didn’t want to have kids I needed to act now.”
Elective sterilization procedures — such as tubal ligations or removals, or vasectomies — already constitute the most common forms of birth control in the U.S. But they’ve come into the spotlight amid the overturning of Roe last month and fears that access to contraception could be next.
