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[mundens]

I was reading holding_pattern's recent post on birth control pills, and felt like ranting on it. but I didn't want to intrude on the ladies seriously discussing pills and the like, with what is a slightly flippant rant

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[cha0sslave]

You realise what they actually DO in that procedure don't you. Sure if they work out a non intrusive way to do it with lasers or nanobots or something and get Pharmac to fund it then sweet. But I'm not paying a couple of hundred bucks for someone to rip my sack open and then hobble about for 3 or 4 days afterwards.

A better way to do it would be genetically alter males so they are born sterile, or become sterile at a certain stage after sperm has been harvested and stored. Otherwise, if procreation is reqired, and the subjects are assessed as suitable for parenting, and meet the financial requirements, then they could use other genetic material surgically implanted in the egg to create an embryo, at the same time ensuring it is born disease free and undamaged, while creating an offspring with all the requested physical characteristics. Or alternatively the old fashioned way of "lucky dip" and just see what happens.

You're probably still working on the assumption that having children is a right, when instead it SHOULD be a privelage, and a formal, but fair process.

[mundens]

Of course I'm aware, I had it done to myself many years ago by possibly one of the worst people I could have had it done by, an Army surgeon! And one of the attending nurses was a lady I'd been intimate with at an earlier time!

That was the only worrying thing, being put under by an "ex"! :)

There was a small pair of scars about 1cm in length IIRC, that are almost unnoticable now, I doubt I could find them.

I didn't hobble around at all, I walked out of the surgery within fiften minutes of them finishing, and was back at work in the hangar the next day.
I seem to remember being very keen to prove it didn't affect my performance afterwards!

Actually there other funny things about my experience, remind me to tell you some time.