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
    28·
    13 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.

    • yeehaw@lemmy.ca
      2·
      5 hours ago

      Let’s not forget about child care, cause you know, in this economy both parents typically need to work to keep their heads financially above water.

    • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
      54·
      10 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?

        • UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          4 hours ago

          The “I didn’t ask to be born” argument implies a mechanism by which you could ask to be born.

          Go down to your local NICU and survey it’s residents. Tell me how many you meet who hold this view in the hours and days after their birth.

          Hell, give me a survey of two year olds. Four year olds. Eight year olds, even.

          I challenge you to find me any fervent anti-natalist younger than a teenager. I’ll challenge you to find any that aren’t terminally online.

          Anti-natalism isn’t a philosophy you’re born into, it’s something you develop over time through rational observation and logical reason. These are two skills you develop after being alive for some time, typically through dialogue with other living people.

          They are not conclusions you can instinctively reach in uterus.

      • Starbuncle@lemmy.caEnglish
        51·
        7 hours ago

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