PROLIFE POSTER #3

A provocative poster to touch men's ego. It is all about discipline

PROLIFE POSTER #1

Vasectomy has been given a "pass" in the general public and when people answer questions about vasectomy on Yahoo! Answers, the posts always look the same. They all say  that vasectomy has no side effects, can't affect sexual function and is completely safe. When someone point out the incidence of chronic testicular pain and the sexual side effects that men complain about anonymously in internet forums, they get "thumbs down" ratings. This is very strange.We can always find list references from the Urological literature to back up these points, yet, few seem to accept the information.
I don't understand the defense of an elective surgical procedure by people who have not had it done. It is like vasectomy has an "urban myth" attached to it of "complete and total safety". Perhaps it is because of the advertising of vasectomy as completely safe and the lack of public forum to discuss the outcome. Fifty percent of men keep their vasectomy a secret due to fears of being seen as less masculine or defective in some way after the procedure. Perhaps the men that have side effects keep their symptoms to themselves out of a similar fear or embarrassment. It is not like vasectomy is an acceptable "water cooler" topic.
Interestingly, if you get men who have had it done to talk about it, you hear a wide group of side effects and the hell of post-vasectomy pain syndrome.

For more details visit:
www.vasectomypain.org
www.prolife.org
www.prolife.org.ph

A Vasectomy gone wrong

What if the "safe" vasectomy fails? Failure as in you would loose all the manly pride you have in your entire life. One will not only suffer a tremendous physical pain but also a lifelong psychological trauma.
In May 1996, Daniel Stalker reluctantly decided to undergo Vasectomy with the promises of safe, simple, painless and less invasive operation as compared to female sterilization. He felt so much pain during the procedure. Later one of his testicles then turned black and swelled to double the size. The complications has caused so much pain as he describes :
“About 20 hours a day I’m in bed, doubled up in pain. I’ve tried to commit suicide five or six times because the pain is that bad. It is manageable one minute - I could be sitting there talking - then the next second I’m doubled over in pain and I’m screaming the house down. It happens about five times a day.”

He said it was difficult for his wife, Elizabeth, 47, and his four children, Gayle, 25, Michael, 23, John, 15, and Aimee, 12. Gayle had had to come back from Australia, where she was working as a nanny, to help his wife look after him, he said.
Doctors has to remove his testicles to save his life and an attempt to end his misery - but this has failed to alleviate the pain.

Regrets comes later. Better be safe than becoming "less of a man"

Remembering "THE EMERGENCY": India 1970s

There was a time in India when men became the object of a gender biased policy. In 1976, Sanjay Gandhi launched a drive to cleanse the city of slums and force their residents to leave the Capital. Sanjay reportedly ordered officials of the Delhi Development Authority to clear the heavily populated, mostly Muslim slum. This forced resettlement of more than 250,000 people, which killed at least a dozen as recorded and became a touchstone for the opposition.
Sanjay publicly initiated a widespread family planning program to limit population growth. But this resulted in government officials and police officers forcibly performing vasectomies in order to meet quotas. Vasectomy became a condition not just for land allotments, but for irrigation water, electricity, ration cards, rickshaw licenses, medical care, pay raises, and promotions. Everyone, from senior government officials to train conductors to policemen, was given a vasectomy quota. Officially, men with two children or more had to submit to sterilization, but many unmarried young men, political opponents and ignorant, poor men were also been sterilized. Hundreds died from botched sterilizations - according to official statistics. There was no way to count the number who were being hauled away to sterilization camps against their will. This program is still remembered and criticized in India, and is blamed for creating a public aversion to family planning, which hampered Government programmes for decades.
At last, in the largest democratic election in history, the people of India produced one of history's great political upsets. Men became united against this gender biased policies. The prime minister Indira Gandhi was routed in her home district.. The Congress Party was defeated all across northern India. They lost 141 out of 142 seats in the states that had registered the largest increases in male sterilization. In Delhi the crowds stayed up through the night to cheer as the results came in. Something even more powerful, even more implacable, men had finally defeated the ideology of population control: People voting, one by one.