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.”

  • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caEnglish
    1048·
    11 days ago

    This is what happens when the conservatives threaten the right to an abortion. Drastic measures have to be taken.

    No kid should be born unloved or a woman have her life threatened because too many ignorant folks think she is sinful for getting healthcare or evil for not raising more wage slaves for the bourgeoisie.

    • Yawweee877h444@lemmy.world
      3910·
      11 days ago

      I disagree but unless we get actual data on why people are choosing not to have kids then we don’t really know for sure.

      I’d say the major reason is wealth inequality, cost of living, inflation, housing prices, etc. Everything’s too expensive… everything. It’s getting to the point that life isn’t even worth living anymore, as its just a repetitive cycle to work and pay bills. I both can’t afford to have a kid, nor would I want to bring one into this hellscape.

      Again no way to know the real reasons unless we get the data.

      • RangerJosie@lemmy.worldEnglish
        39·
        11 days ago

        It’s money first and foremost. People are struggling to survive by themselves. They can’t afford kids. So conservatives get rid of abortion. They frame it as a religious issue, but it’s only such for their ignorant followers. For those monied individuals at the top its purely about having an ever growing slave caste to exploit. Can’t have infinitely growing profits without an infinitely growing base of suckers to sell shit to.

        It’s also about freedom. Self determination. And the general state of the world. Nothing of substance is being done about climate change. We’re staring down the barrel of WWIII. Late Stage capitalism.

        It’s a confluence of factors that taken together paint a particularly bleak future.

        • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
          12·
          11 days ago

          Im planning on getting one soon, and it’s definitely this for me.

          Also I tend to believe climate scientists who say shit is going to get interesting within the next 20 years… not really something I’d feel good about bringing a kid into.

      • Brodysseus@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        151·
        11 days ago

        One data point and I’m American, but figured I’d give my two cents on why I did it.

        In addition to all the reasons you listed I think that my own mental health is an obstacle, and also the increasingly limited access to women’s healthcare.

        Making the decision to not have kids was a complex issue for me as I imagine it is for others too. Tbh the political and economic climate was probably the final push I needed, but there’s probably at least 10 reasons in total.

      • Sunshine (she/her)@lemmy.caEnglish
        20·
        11 days ago

        All the conservative mps have voted against support of abortions recently and they’re currently projected to a win a majority government in the future.

    • Slayan@lemmy.ca
      47·
      11 days ago

      Let’s get clear i hate pp and the con as much a everybody here but pp never ever talked about removing abortion rights, he actually said the opposite. I’ll reiterate pp is a loser, he has no real agenda, and his whole camapign is basically fuck trudeau. But he never said abortions right were on the table.

      https://www.ctvnews.ca/politics/debate-on-abortion-rights-erupts-on-parliament-hill-poilievre-vows-he-won-t-legislate-1.6880392

      A common sense Conservative government will not legislate on abortion and therefore would never use this section of the Constitution pertaining to this matter," he said.

      https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-same-sex-marriage-abortion-1.7222881

      In an interview with Liberal MP Nathaniel Erskine-Smith, who hosts a podcast called Uncommons, Alberta Conservative MP Arnold Viersen also stressed his social conservative credentials on other issues, saying he wants protections for what he calls the “pre-born,” supports Alberta Premier Danielle Smith’s transgender policies and would vote to criminalize cannabis possession again if given the opportunity.

      Asked by Erskine-Smith about a hypothetical future bill to overturn same-sex marriage, Viersen said, “I vote gay marriage down.”

      In a media statement issued Monday, Poilievre said Viersen’s statements and positions “do not represent the positions of the Conservative Party, or myself as leader.”

      “As our party’s policy book, adopted by party members, has said for years, ‘a Conservative Government will not support any legislation to regulate abortion.’ When I am prime minister, no laws or rules will be passed that restrict women’s reproductive choices. Period,” Poilievre added

      https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/rayes-abortion-poilievre-1.7362640

      Poilievre has said that if he’s elected prime minister, his government will not support any legislation to regulate abortion.

      “As the Party’s policy book, adopted by Party members, has said for years, ‘a Conservative Government will not support any legislation to regulate abortion,’” said Poilievre’s spokesperson, Sebastian Skamski, in a media statement.

      “When Canadians elect Pierre Poilievre as Prime Minister, no laws or rules will be passed that restrict women’s reproductive choices. Period.”

      Once again just to be clear. Fuck pp and his cons🫡

      • Log in | Sign up@lemmy.world
        13·
        11 days ago

        Yes, but also conservatives are frequently lying bastards who promise to not make things worse and then make things worse. The US supreme court judges aren’t Canadian, but they are conservatives and the recently appointed ones all said that Roe v Wade was settled law and they wouldn’t change it,.

        • Slayan@lemmy.ca
          2·
          10 days ago

          Oh yeah totally, i don’t trust them at all. rich people are pieces of shit and those that cater to them are shit eater.

          Here’s another interesring one. Even tough it’s already 2 years old.

          https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/abortion-rights-canada-morgentaler-court-1.6439612

          Personally as a french canadian i have the easy way of voting bloc. I might vote for the npd again, but i don’t see Jagmeet ever being able to get over the xenophobia… so yah alot of fun time on the way~🫠