In the latest from the who would have thought that the recession would have affected this department, Planned Parenthood in Southern California is reporting that requests for vasectomies were up 30 percent in the first quarter for its clinics in San Diego and Riverside Counties. Similar increases in the procedure, or requests for the procedure, were also reported in places like Seattle and New York City.
Possible explanations for the increases include:
• Unemployed men often qualify for free vasectomies under FamilyPACT, a California family planning program for low-income households.
• With the uncertain economy and job situation, many men are anxious about the expense of an additional child.
• Some men are afraid of losing their job and want to get their vasectomy done before they lose their health insurance
• Some men come in because they are out of work and have more time on their hands to take care of medical issues.
Personally, I think that there is just not a lot of good TV anymore, and you are hanging around the house with all that free time on your hands, with nothing else to do, so……
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