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.”

  • @UnderpantsWeevil
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    4 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?

    • @[email protected]
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      31 hour ago

      Antinatalists aren’t suicidal, most likely living, they just understand that life isn’t a gift.

    • @[email protected]
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      257 minutes ago

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