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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."

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[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

there’s no option for refusing to be born

There's no option for volunteering to be born, either. The argument can just as easily be turn on its head.

The idea is anti-natalism is one you develop as a mature rational adult, not one you held prior to your birth.

Think of it as being in a roller coaster. Two minutes into the ride you decide "Too scary, I don't want to be here" but also acknowledge how it is impractical to get out of your seat in the middle of a loop de loop. So you turn to your friend in the other seat and say "Past me didn't get consent from future me to be here! That's unfair!"

You're asking for something nobody can provide you, even if they wanted to indulge your demands.

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