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TlalocW

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9. Even today, people - primarily women - still get a lecture or worse
Thu Mar 8, 2012, 10:46 AM
Mar 2012

When seeking tubals. And if you're a childfree woman, a lot of doctors won't come within 10 feet of you because they're afraid the woman will change her mind and go lawsuit-happy and sue the doctor that performed the surgery. Often it also happens to childfree males seeking the big V.

I'm a childfree male, and I got lucky since I was in Tulsa (religious wackjobs aplenty) when I decided to get the surgery. Fortunately, the referring doctor was a funny, cantankerous old bastard, who took me seriously and set me up with a V-doctor, who while he performed the operation kept up a running conversation with me and mentioned that his daughter and son-in-law didn't have kids either, and the son-in-law had gotten a vasectomy so he knew where I was coming from. The only negative reaction I got was from the first doctor's nurse, who asked what I was in for then asked how many kids I had. When I said none, she was shocked. She told the doctor when he came in, and he said, "So what?" and made her leave the room.

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