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.”

  • @UnderpantsWeevilEnglish
    1•2 hours ago

    The “I didn’t ask to be born” argument implies a mechanism by which you could ask to be born.

    Go down to your local NICU and survey it’s residents. Tell me how many you meet who hold this view in the hours and days after their birth.

    Hell, give me a survey of two year olds. Four year olds. Eight year olds, even.

    I challenge you to find me any fervent anti-natalist younger than a teenager. I’ll challenge you to find any that aren’t terminally online.

    Anti-natalism isn’t a philosophy you’re born into, it’s something you develop over time through rational observation and logical reason. These are two skills you develop after being alive for some time, typically through dialogue with other living people.

    They are not conclusions you can instinctively reach in uterus.