User talk:Dustin Saturn

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Vasectomy
Personally, I think your question is flamebait. It also potentially has medical liability implications. A vasectomy on a newborn would, I believe, be a difficult procedure to perform and an invasive one. Yes, risk would be low. However no doctor who has taken the Hippocratic Oath should ever agree to such a procedure. And what about cases where it is not reversible? How much compensation do you give? --Brian McNeil / talk 20:01, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * 1) Surgery where there is no benefit and no informed consent should not be performed. The "informed consent" is how plastic surgeons operate.
 * 2) Circumcision is (a) trivial (not even a local) and (b) has some potential medical benefits regarding risk of infection under the foreskin. Historically it was written into religious creeds as less sanitary conditions made such infection more likely and more dangerous.
 * 3) Do you really want the government saying your child has to risk their testicles not developing properly at puberty? Or that the tubes are damaged? What if the risk was only 4%? Are you happy to have the government decide that? A 1 in 25 chance you'll never have grandchildren? And do you honestly think rich people wouldn't want exemptions so they had real grandchildren.
 * 4) Who will get to adopt if there are no unwanted babies? Are you proposing a market for newborn babies?


 * I'm going to ask one of our other contributors to take a look at your question and the discussion. He's a medical student and can likely explain more about the oath, and his opinion on the proposed surgery. --Brian McNeil / talk 21:16, 22 July 2007 (UTC)


 * Personally I think it'd be electoral suicide for any candidate to adopt such a proposal, which also makes the question a bit pointless. A less controversial proposal would be compulsory contraception for women from puberty until they reach the criteria you suggest.  There are extremely low-risk implants that will provide birth control for up to three months at a time.  But how do you reconcile that with right to religious expression and the Catholic belief that contraception is a sin? --Brian McNeil / talk 21:30, 22 July 2007 (UTC)