Thoughts on regulating vasectomies?

Question

The pro-lifers, here in the great state of Tennessee, are pushing to regulate, if not rid of, vasectomies. Opinions?

Answer 1

I can't stand anti-choice fascists. They need to mind their own damned business. A man's body, no matter what, is HIS to do with what he will, just as is a woman's.



Tall Man and Raising Three: BULL S H I T. A sperm is a POTENTIAL life, just as is a pregnancy. Unless you're both willing to say that miscarriage doesn't happen?

Answer 2

I think that should be the decision of the man. I'm against abortion, but this is not even related. He's preventing the need for abortions by preventing his sperm from impregnating someone.



Actually, if someone is going to be having sex but has no intention of ever having children, I think a vasectomy is much more moral than the abortion that comes when he accidentally gets someone pregnant.



EDIT:

It is my belief that a fetus is a life, so I act according to that belief. A potential for life and an actual life are drastically different.



My daughter has the potential for an A in math. So, should I act as if she has it and reward her accordingly? Or should I wait to act until that potential turns into an actuality?



For LDS, the reason we are against abortion is because we do not know when the spirit enters the fetus. But we do know the spirit is not present before conception, so there is no need to protect sperm.



If we felt that potential was the same as actual, we'd be having a funeral and big hoopla everytime a woman had period. Because, *gasp* she murdered that potential for a baby by not getting pregnant. But that's not how we act, because we don't believe potential is the same as actual.



Yes, miscarriages happen. In that case, a life has died. Just like when a baby, child, teenager or adult dies. Tell the woman that experiences a miscarriage of a wanted child that it's not a big deal because it's not a child, it was just a potential. I'm willing to bet you'll walk away from that conversation w/ a bloody nose. Every woman I've known that miscarried a wanted child has gone through a mourning period just as she would for a child out of the womb.

Answer 3

Neither my spouse no longer I had any genuine concerns. as a rely of fact, my spouse is a nurse, and she or he asked the physician if she could be conscious the surgical technique. They shared some friendly banter as I lay there getting labored on. I thoroughly propose a vasectomy because of the fact the terrific everlasting kind of beginning administration obtainable.

Answer 4

I couldn't care less about "pro-life", "pro-choice" or any of that argument. The government has no business in any citizen's bedroom.



The reason I have two websites about vasectomy is the 10 to 15% incidence of chronic genital pain associated with the procedure.



See this reference of the only prospective vasectomy audit in the medical literature:

The incidence of chronic scrotal pain after vasectomy: a prospective audit. Leslie TA, Illing RO, Cranston DW, Guillebaud J.



The Elliot-Smith Clinic, The Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK.



OBJECTIVE: To assess the extent of scrotal pain in men before and after vasectomy, to produce accurate data for the benefit of men considering this procedure, and hence improved informed consent about the outcomes, as chronic scrotal pain after vasectomy is a poorly quantified clinical problem. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Between November 2004 and January 2006 nine surgeons carried out vasectomies in 625 men (mean age 39.9 years, sd 5.6) under local anaesthesia. A questionnaire was devised to establish the presence of any scrotal or testicular pain, and to characterize this discomfort; 6 months after the procedure a modified version of the same questionnaire was administered. RESULTS: In all, 593 (94.7%) men returned the preoperative questionnaires and were entered into the study; 488 (82.2%) of these completed the follow-up questionnaire, giving a mean (sd) follow-up of 6.8 (1.6) months. In all, 65 men reported new-onset scrotal pain at 7 months (14.7%). The mean visual analogue score for this pain was 3.4/10. Four men (0.9%) in the responding group described pain after vasectomy as 'quite severe and noticeably affecting their quality of life'. CONCLUSION: At 7 months after vasectomy about 15% of previously asymptomatic men have some degree of scrotal discomfort. These early data indicate that chronic scrotal pain after vasectomy is a genuine entity, but a longer-term follow-up in this group will be important to allow further evaluation of how this pain develops with time.



So, based on this study and the other five retrospective studies (see several linked below) with similar findings in the medical literature, I think vasectomy should have a more complete informed consent process, but as for the pro-life issue...I don't care.

Answer 5

Just ask a few of them how many of them are late on their child support payments.



I would have gone to Mexico if required to get my vasectomy. There is no way I would ever have sex as long as the potential for pregnancy exists.



All men who are against abortions and vasectomies have one thing in common..... Monthly child support payments.

Answer 6

How is that even legal? It can't possibly be.



The government does not have the right to tell a man whether or not he can have a vasectomy.

Answer 7

Hey i live in TN. too, i think it's silly to regulate vasectomies.

Answer 8

Because people in Tennessee are all about overpopulating the earth.



Why should someone be able to tell you that you *have* to have children?

Answer 9

That is terrible they have no right to infringe on somebody's right to determin their family size. It makes me sick they throw fits against birthcontrol but then where are they when it comes to supporting all of these unwanted children?

Answer 10

Next thing you know, they'll be passing a law against masturbation.

Answer 11

vasectomies



sick that anyone would want to multilate themselves like that, but whatever.