Would you support remote control vasectomies for all males?

[Fritzo]

I wonder if it hurts when you turn it on and off?

"Honey...I think I want more kids!"

"*sigh*....alllriiighht......::click:: ARRRGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! All set!"

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

No surgery is routine. If you do it on many million people how many thousands are going to have serious complications? 5%? 1%? .5%? .1%(that's still 150000 people if done on every male in the US right now)? Is that worth it? They've had the tech to make women infertile for years at a time and it's a less invasive procedure. Why not pimp that as a method to keep teens from getting pregnant?

 

[Red Squirrel]

Should be USB, so you have a little plug you just insert into a pc then install the drivers. No need to worry about wireless signals/hackers etc.

"new device detected: 3/4" awg penis valve"

It could have other features too perhaps to give you full administrative access.

 

[Dumac]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
No surgery is routine. If you do it on many million people how many thousands are going to have serious complications? 5%? 1%? .5%? .1%(that's still 150000 people if done on every male in the US right now)? Is that worth it? They've had the tech to make women infertile for years at a time and it's a less invasive procedure. Why not pimp that as a method to keep teens from getting pregnant?

See circumcision.

 

[hanoverphist]

Originally posted by: Dumac

Originally posted by: broon
No. It should not even be a surgical option to anyone under 18.

May I ask why you think this way? It would be a great way to control teen pregnancy.

it also takes away personal responsibility. this is something, as a parent, i think is necessary to be taught at that age instead of bypassed with a microvalve.

and how the hell do you change the batteries? how long would it stay active? youd have to have a way to identify the valve remotely, so it would have to send and receive. that would be a HUGE opening to abuse in the form of tracking.

 

[kalrith]

Originally posted by: RESmonkey

Originally posted by: IAteYourMother
until a hacker steals all codes and renders the world infertile, leading to a Children of Men scenario

I voted yes, but after reading this post and thinking a bit, I wish to change my answer "Probably not a good idea if something goes wrong."

This.

Edit: I'll add that this would likely reduce the incentive of a lot of teens to use protection, so STDs might increase from this.

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: hanoverphist
and how the hell do you change the batteries? how long would it stay active? youd have to have a way to identify the valve remotely, so it would have to send and receive. that would be a HUGE opening to abuse in the form of tracking.

Couldn't it just draw inductive power like RFIDs?

 

[MixMasterTang]

Nothing that evasive should be "required" but should be an "option".

 

[Engineer]

Originally posted by: MotF Bane
Absofuckinglutely not.

This...and I've already had my two vasectomies (yes, I said two).

 

[WhipperSnapper]

Assuming that it worked as advertised and that it was 100% secure (women couldn't steal the codes, activate the valves, and trick men into unwanted fatherhood) then it would be revolutionary and might even dramatically change our society. Imagine how different things would be if every pregnancy were fully planned and if men no longer suffered from the life-changing and often life-destroying costs of unwanted fatherhood.

 

[JJ650]

Wow.


Ths is so wrong on a lot of levels. Mandatory anything is never as good as the controlling majority would have you believe.

What's good for the goose may not be good for the gander.

Besides, doesn't every one know that the key to controlling population growth (unwanted or not) is to restrict the female! (in the wild, this is the case though).

As far as women under 18 being on birth control, there are other reasons for being on it just being a preventative measure. My wife was on it at 16 to help her control her periods. Psycho cycle girl!

 

[AyashiKaibutsu]

I'm assuming the valve redirects sperm into the blood stream like a normal vasectomy if so:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/re...07/02/070212183237.htm
It's like lining our water system in lead.

 

[geno]

Originally posted by: AyashiKaibutsu
I'm assuming the valve redirects sperm into the blood stream like a normal vasectomy if so:

Woah waoh woah...what? I thought they just tied it off / blocked it? You mean every time someone with a vasectomy busts one, they're dumping it in their own blood? noo...that can't be right, can it?

Don't hack the sack bro...