In troubled times, vasectomies snip and prosper (CNN)

[eppur_se_muova]

By Madison Park
CNN

(CNN) -- Dr. J. Stephen Jones had seven vasectomies to perform in a day.

The schedule for Jones, a Cleveland, Ohio, urologist, has become more crowded during a recent boom in vasectomies.

"My staff came to me and said, what's happening?" said Jones, the chairman of the Department of Regional Urology of Glickman Urological and Kidney Institute at the Cleveland Clinic. "Why are we suddenly having an explosion in guys asking for vasectomies?"

They looked at their statistics and realized the uptick started around November as the economic crisis deepened. October went down in the history books as one of Wall Street's worst months.

Since then, the Cleveland Clinic has seen a 50 percent increase in vasectomies, an outpatient surgery that is the cheapest form of permanent birth control. Vasectomies are less invasive and cheaper than tubal ligation, which involves blocking, tieing or cutting a woman's fallopian tubes to prevent pregnancy.
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more: http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/03/24/vasectomy.increase.economy/index.html

[monmouth]

1. Finally! Women delegating some responsibility on this subject. I

think we next need a panel of 4-5 women to discuss men's birth control since cable loves to have men discuss these subjects..LOL. I'm kidding sort of but not completely...

[Deja Q]

2. Why can't they put in little rocker switches instead?

That way, you can get turned on without the fear of being turned off by lots of little snotmakers roaming around the house, demanding money.