Reply #85: Vasectomy [View All]

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My wife was REQUIRED to be present at the meeting I had with my urologist who was going to do my vas. He said that if I was married, he would NOT under any circumstance perform a vasectomy unless my wife signed off on it. I don't know if this was an institutional policy, but he made it clear that HE would not do it unless my wife gave the OK.

I work with this same urologist, and later asked him (rhetorically) why it would be OK for my teenage daughter to get an abortion without her parents (or her partners) consent, yet I needed my wifes OK to get my seed-sack snipped. He claimed it was an "old rule" that the entire department embraced. He refused to elaborate.

Hmmm...