{"id":1168548,"date":"2021-12-29T08:49:39","date_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:49:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1168548"},"modified":"2021-12-29T08:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-12-29T13:49:41","slug":"pro-abortion-men-are-getting-vasectomies-over-texas-heartbeat-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pro-abortion-men-are-getting-vasectomies-over-texas-heartbeat-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Abortion Men Are Getting Vasectomies Over Texas\u2019 \u2018Heartbeat\u2019 Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpro-abortion-men-are-getting-vasectomies-over-texas-heartbeat-law%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1168548&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Pro-abortion men are apparently signing up for vasectomies in the wake of Texas\u2019 new law restricting abortions after about six weeks into a pregnancy.<\/p>\n<p>In May, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) signed into law a ban on most abortions once cardiac activity can be detected in an unborn child, which generally happens six weeks into a pregnancy. After the law went into effect into September, it was immediately challenged by abortion advocates in the courts. The challenges have so far been unsuccessful at blocking the law, however.<\/p>\n<p>In somewhat of a protest over the new legislation, pro-abortion men have begun receiving vasectomies in solidarity with women over Texas\u2019 new abortion restrictions, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/nation\/2021\/12\/26\/men-across-america-are-getting-vasectomies-an-act-love\/\">The Washington Post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Austin Urology Institute\u2019s Koushik Shaw said his practice saw about a 15% jump in vasectomy operations since the law went into effect, with patients citing the law as the primary reason for getting the surgery.<\/p>\n<p>Patients tell Shaw \u201c\u2018Hey, I\u2019m actually here because some of these changes that Abbott and our legislature have passed that are really impacting our decision-making in terms of family planning,\u2019 so that was a new one for me as a reason \u2014 the first time, patients are citing a state law as their motivating factor,\u201d Shaw said, according to the Post.<\/p>\n<p>The Texas law narrowly avoided the fate of most recent abortion restrictions: A stay by a court. Shortly after coming into effect in September, a group of abortion providers petitioned the Supreme Court to stay the law. As <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/supreme-court-rejects-abortion-providers-request-to-stay-texas-heartbeat-law\">The Daily Wire<\/a> reported:<\/p>\n<p><em>The court\u2019s conservative majority rejected the abortion providers\u2019 request because of the law\u2019s enforcement mechanism, which separates it from \u201cheartbeat\u201d laws passed in other states. The law deputizes private citizens, granting them standing to file lawsuits against violating abortion providers rather than authorizing state agents to police them. The court dismissed the request, which names every state court judge and clerk as defendants, based on procedural grounds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is unclear whether the named defendants in this lawsuit can or will seek to enforce the Texas law against the applicants in a manner that might permit our intervention,\u201d the ruling states. \u201cThe State has represented that neither it nor its executive employees possess the authority to enforce the Texas law either directly or indirectly. Nor is it clear whether, under existing precedent, this Court can issue an injunction against state judges asked to decide a lawsuit under Texas\u2019s law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The court\u2019s conservative majority rejected the abortion providers\u2019 request because of the law\u2019s enforcement mechanism, which separates it from \u201cheartbeat\u201d laws passed in other states. The law deputizes private citizens, granting them standing to file lawsuits against violating abortion providers rather than authorizing state agents to police them. The court dismissed the request, which names every state court judge and clerk as defendants, based on procedural grounds.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIt is unclear whether the named defendants in this lawsuit can or will seek to enforce the Texas law against the applicants in a manner that might permit our intervention,\u201d the ruling states. \u201cThe State has represented that neither it nor its executive employees possess the authority to enforce the Texas law either directly or indirectly. Nor is it clear whether, under existing precedent, this Court can issue an injunction against state judges asked to decide a lawsuit under Texas\u2019s law.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/p>\n<p><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pro-abortion men are apparently signing up for vasectomies in the wake of Texas\u2019 new law restricting abortions after about six weeks into a pregnancy. In May, Texas Governor Greg Abbott (R) signed into law a ban on most abortions once cardiac activity can be detected in an unborn child, which generally happens six weeks into &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1168548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1168548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1168548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1168548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1168548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1168548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}