Men's Contraceptive

	posted by Scott on Sunday September 02, @10:56AM from the men's-health/reproductive-rights dept.
	Neil Steyskal sent in this story from Australia's Herald Sun and writes "Having children that you haven't planned is one of the most serious risks for men. [This] new development brings us a bit closer to having more control over it."

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I hope this thing ends up working by Anonymous User on Wednesday September 05, @01:34PM EST (#1) Children whose parent(s) don't want them is a serious issue for all of society. Parental rejection is the worst kind. I experienced it myself, and I've never gotten over the fact that my parents flatly abandoned me. I felt like I wasn't meant to be born, that I didn't belong in this world, and that if my own parents didn't want me, I wasn't deserving of love. I'm in my 30s and I'm still fighting off those feelings of rejection. I don't think the hurt will ever stop completely. I applaud any new contraceptive to keep more unwanted children from being born. I also rabidly support the right of young people (men and women) to get themselves surgically sterilized if they choose to do so. Doctors who refuse to sterilize 18-year-olds because "they might change their minds later" disgust me. If at age 18 a woman or man is so adamant about not wanting kids that they are willing to undergo surgery, the chances of them changing their minds are less than them being struck by lightning in their lifetime. Twice. Even if they do change their minds, so what? They can adopt. I'd rather have adults regret a voluntary decision to sterilize themselves than have more kids wish they'd never been born. If they want kids later, they can adopt one of the millions of children who were born to parents who didn't want them. The best time to make a choice is before an unwanted child is conceived and brought into this world to live a life marred by rejection and depression. I strongly feel that if my own parents had more birth control options open to them (including surgical sterilization), they would have exercised them. At least the chances would have been better.

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