Michael F Schundler
2 min readDec 30, 2024

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Your point is tongue in cheek, but going with that approach a more appropriate option is that whenever an elective abortion is performed, both the man and the woman get sterilized as the penalty for their irresponsibility costing the life of a child.

If you want to be generous, both parties would have a week to freeze their eggs and sperm if they want a baby in the future and neither party need worry about unplanned future pregnancies.

Never forget the unborn baby is a life and while some abortions are sadly medically necessary or can be justified as the result nonconsensual sex, it should never be taken lightly or thought of as an after the fact form of birth control. So, your idea of consequences makes sense, but it should apply to both parties.

The best option is for both parties to practice birth control... it is cheaper, and no one dies due to the failure of the two parties to take proper precautions.

In the rare cases, that the "couple" can prove they took precautions, but their birth control failed, they could "appeal" the "sentence". I have never heard anyone use that scripture as a reason not to have a vasectomy.

The bigger reason I have heard is that in some men there are serious psychological side effects, the causes of which are not well known.

"The study, published in 2006 was launched when a 43-year-old man with PPA who had had a vasectomy learned that eight out of nine men in his PPA support group had also had vasectomies. Following up on this observation, researchers surveyed 47 men with PPA and 57 men with no cognitive problems and found that 40 percent of those with PPA had had vasectomies compared to only 16 percent of the men in the other group.

The same study turned up evidence suggesting a link between vasectomy and another form of dementia, frontotemporal dementia (FTD). Here, of 30 men affected, 37 percent had had vasectomies. Signs of this form of dementia are personality changes, lack of judgment and bizarre behavior."

Every medical procedure, every drug, and every vaccine has "side effects", and so the decision to have a medical procedure, take a drug, or get a vaccine should be done with full understanding of the possible consequences even if in some cases those side effects are rare. Having run medical groups for over two decades, it is really to tell a patient that they are one of those that experienced a "bad outcome" even if you did tell them, it was possible before the procedure. The same applies to abortions and other birth control procedures.

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