In over 30 years of practice, Dr. Errol Billinkoff rarely saw a man without kids come into his Winnipeg clinic to get a vasectomy. But since the pandemic began, he says it’s become an almost daily occurrence.

And he’s not alone.

“At first, I thought I was the only one who was noticing this,” Billinkoff, who brought a no-scalpel vasectomy procedure to Winnipeg in the early 1990s, told CBC News in a November interview.

“But I am part of an international chat group where doctors who do vasectomies participate and the topic came up, and it’s like everybody notices it.”

  • Eugene V. Debs' Ghost@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    21·
    7 hours ago
    • No right to abortion in the United States
    • Giving someone who didn’t get asked or consent to being born, the forced existence of life.
    • A child for a parent is expensive, mentally draining, and you have to be a good parent
    • You also have to be the parent for a child with any special needs, from allergies to mental issues to being born without limbs
    • If the child is any form of “other” to society, they will be picked on, and then possible harmed by the rise of Neo-Fascism
    • Work or starve, work or be cold, work until you die. Another tax number, another corporate slave.

    Being born is fine, once you’re here you should try to live life to its fullest. But I don’t want kids, I would be a horrid father.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      33·
      4 hours ago

      Giving someone who didn’t get asked or consent to being born

      How do you signal a desire to be born, practically speaking? Who do you contact to indicate your desire to begin existing?

      If you don’t want to exist, why not simply surrender your place in line to someone who does?

      • StarbuncleEnglish
        2·
        49 minutes ago

        Ah yes, the classic “just kill yourself” argument. You totally destroyed that antinatalist.