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Originally Posted by kJKINVARA
What about a reversable visectomy for all boys. The will still have the right and then the privilege when the desire becomes real.
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Just that it is reversable, without complications of drugs given to girls, effective and addresses irresponsiblity.
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Have you HAD a vasectomy or a vasectomy reversal? If not, you might want to read up on it. VRs are not all successful.
First of all, vasectomies are not without risks including infection and permanent sterility. Vasectomies can permanently affect the quality of sperm & semen and make conception difficult or impossible.
For the best chance of success, VRs should be performed within 10 yrs of the vasectomy.
VRs, unlike vasectomies, are not covered by insurance. With complications from the original vasectomy (like going past the 10 year mark or excessive scarring) some VRs have to be done under general or spinal anesthesia. That's about a 10k out-of-pocket expense. Vasovasotomy can cost up to 5k.
Once you've had an unsuccessful VR, the only choices for creating children are through adoption or invitro-fertilization. Neither choice is easy, inexpensive or without some kind of emotional upheaval.
IVF would require either donor sperm or the male partner to undergo TESE - extraction of sperm from the testicles or MESA - microsurgical epididymal sperm aspiration. Both require a local and cuts & stitches.
Second of all, who decides what boys are getting vasectomies and at what age? The government? The parents? And what's to stop someone else from lobbying for tubal ligation for girls?
Perhaps we need to educate our youth better about responsibility and make parenting classes mandatory rather than suggesting that children be "temporarily" sterilized.
As to the original question: IMO, having children is a right and a privilege and with that comes the responsibility to raise those children to respect themselves and to respect others. I think if parents can do that much, they've earned the right to call themselves good parents.
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