Vasectomy rates rising for young people in Arizona [Video]

TUCSON — After his vasectomy when he was 24 years old, Alex Baker emailed the paperwork to legislators in Arizona.

“I told them, you know this is the byproduct of your legislation,” he said. “If we want to talk about the unborn as a existing entity, they deserve better than being brought into the world in a human vessel that in the case of my genetic disorder could leave them blind in both eyes and dead of pediatric cancer before the age of ten.”

He has a genetic disorder called PTEN hamartoma and doesn’t want to pass it on to children. He also decided as a teenager, he wanted to live a child-free life.

So when legislation in Arizona and neighboring states began to restrict abortions, he decided to get a vasectomy. Baker isn’t alone in this decision.

The rate of young people and single people getting vasectomies has risen …