Not like you haven't heard it before (especially if you were hanging out with me this weekend) but vasectomies are totally safe. And because this is my blog, I'll tell you my opinion on vasectomies: I'm all for them. No one really wants me to go into it, but here's a quick rundown, from my perspective. Heterosexual women have menstrual cycles, and all that brings. They also bear the brunt of contraception, from what I gather. Further, they are the ones carrying and birthing children, often breastfeeding them. I don't feel it's an outrageous request for men involved with these women to consider vasectomies as fairly painless and totally reversible procedure. The article talks about how men are squeamish about their boy parts, a concern for which I have little sympathy. Somehow testicles became sacred, while women's fallopian tubes, uterii & etc became medically available. It's a procedure that Jamaican men, for example, do not use. You've heard it before.
Speaking of uteri, you may know my obsession with this from my previous posts, but the Picture of the Day from DCist a few days ago was a woman carrying three fetuses in her two uterii. Awesome!
Gardasil, the HPV vaccine, hasn't been cleared for use in women 27 to 45.
Generic Yasmin available; Planned Parenthood going upscale, and that little Romanian girl finally got her abortion.
New way to freeze unfertilized eggs is better than the old way, in that eggs are more usable with this new method. And scientists are saying they will be able to create sperm and eggs from stem cells in the next two decades.
And the animal story: coating birds' eggs with vegetable oil to keep them from hatching is a new method of population control in New York.
"The rate of unwanted pregnancies after vasectomy remains low; most of those pregnancies can be traced to patient error."
I love the euphemism 'patient error' for being cuckolded.
Posted by: Jonathan | July 01, 2008 at 04:03 PM
Actually, I think patient error has to do with having sex before all the sperm is gone/dead. See the University of Maryland's site for more information: http://www.umm.edu/patiented/articles/what_short-term_complications_care_required_after_vasectomy_000037_6.htm
Posted by: cara | July 01, 2008 at 04:55 PM
That's just what the doctors tell the patients to avoid embarrassment...
http://www.menshealth.com/cda/article.do?site=MensHealth&channel=guy.wisdom&category=family.guy&conitem=8a37302052421110VgnVCM10000013281eac____
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