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PINECREST, Fla. (WFOR) – A suburban Florida town overrun with peacocks has come up with a solution to its overpopulation. The male birds in Pinecrest, Florida, will be getting vasectomies. Residents have complained the fowl are scratching their roofs and cars, making messes on their driveways, and their squawks are a nuisance. The procedure on one bird can stop between six to 12 females from reproducing. The Miami-Dade County commissioners approved the plan and are launching the pilot program in a few weeks. A county commissioner says if the plan works in Pinecrest, they may use it in other communities,...

A large Planned Parenthood affiliate has been doing more sterilizations on men this fall since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health. Dr. Grace Shih, director of vasectomy services for Planned Parenthood Great Northwest, told KIRO 7 News that they have seen a 34-percent increase since the June abortion ruling, according to Fox News. Shih said one man told her that he believed having a vasectomy was an “act of love.” Others apparently never want to have children. “Men are interested in learning about contraception and learning about a vasectomy. I think the change in our...

Planned Parenthood of the St. Louis Region and Southwest Missouri (PPSLR) has been advertising “free” vasectomies to underprivileged men in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade. According to Planned Parenthood, uninsured men will be able to undergo a “free” (to them) vasectomy, which can cost up to $1,000, at three locations November 3-5 — in Springfield, Joplin, and St. Louis. The vasectomies will be performed in a mobile clinic. It’s advertised as “free” because Planned Parenthood will help the men access Medicaid (taxpayer-funded government health insurance) in order to pay for the vasectomies, which essentially means taxpayers...

Maoist leaders believe that childbirth and subsequent childcare will be a hurdle for the movement. They fear that the couples might return to their villages to raise the children. So if any of the cadres get married, vasectomy is compulsory. Kamlu Vetti, recruited by Maoists at the age of 12, had to get a vasectomy a decade later when he got married. For Maoist cadres, this is compulsory, he said. The perception is that childcare will prove a distraction and the movement will suffer. After surrendering last year, he availed the government offer of free reverse vasectomy operation and the...

Now that the Supreme Court has overturned Roe v. Wade, the idea of not being able to send their lady friends off to the local abortion clinic seems to have prompted young men to take interest in a permanent form of contraception. According to the Washington Post, doctors across the country are seeing a huge spike in requests for vasectomies in response to the Supreme Court’s ruling one week ago, and men under the age of 30 feature prominently among those now seeking the procedure. A Florida urologist told the outlet that he's seen vasectomy requests jump from four or...

Rep. Chris Rabb, a Democrat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, has introduced a bill that “will require all inseminators to undergo vasectomies within 6 weeks from having their third child or 40th birthday, whichever comes first.“ He announced his intention to introduce the bill on Twitter, ironically including the hashtag #ReproductiveRights with it.

A hospital doctor who gave a man a vasectomy by mistake after he complaint about waiting for another procedure has admitted misconduct charges. Associate specialist in urology Dr Nanikram Vaswani was meant to be removing scar tissue from the patient, but a string of failings meant he performed a vasectomy instead. A medical tribunal heard the patient had arrived at 7.30am for his surgery and was waiting with other men due to have vasectomies. There was "some disquiet" when patients who arrived at 11am were seen before those who arrived earlier leading to confusion over which procedure the man should...

FULL TITLE: Ohio televangelist ‘forced members to have vasectomies and abortions, told women to treat pregnancies as tumors and allowed children to be sexually abused’ Televangelist Ernest Angley has been accused of running an Ohio church where men are forced to get vasectomies and women abortions, and where children were sexually abused. Self-proclaimed prophet Angley has been described by some of 21 former members as a closeted-homosexual Jim Jones who's turned a blind eye to sexual abuse. But the 93-year-old has defended the allegations, saying he is simply an instrument of God. He told the Akron Beacon Journal: 'I'm not...

I had not previously understood the potentials horrors.[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvB03dfbRMM&w=640&h=360] Video linkSurely, we need to show our empathy with all of humanity. Let's help those who believe in anthropomorphic global smarming climate change do whatever they feel obliged to do to themselves. It's the only viable, economically possible and humanitarian way to try to end climate change. Once the Government shut slow down is over, will President Obama arrange grants to encourage such a worthy pursuit? Probably not. In the long term, doing so could reduce the numbers of Democrat voters, a far worse result than even the horrors of climate change....

Number of vasectomies increase with economic downturn Posted: March 25, 2009 05:35 PM Updated: March 26, 2009 02:20 PM By Layron Livingston - bio | emailPosted by Ellen Krafve - emailEAST TEXAS (KLTV) - Doctor's offices in major metropolitan cities like Cleveland and New York have seen vasectomy requests increase as much as 50% since November.  "I hadn't actually considered it, but as much as my son gives me trouble, I might think about it sometimes," said Dwayne Williams.Williams "number one" says Dwayne Williams "number two" is the youngest in his family of four. He says he and his wife have not...

CNN) -- Dr. J. Stephen Jones had seven vasectomies to perform in a day. Some urologists around the country are reporting increased numbers of patients coming in for 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...

Some of the Uprooted Won't Go Home Again By Richard Morin and Lisa Rein Friday, September 16, 2005; HOUSTON, Sept. 15 -- Fewer than half of all New Orleans evacuees living in emergency shelters here said they will move back home, while two-thirds of those who want to relocate planned to settle permanently in the Houston area, according to a survey by The Washington Post, the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation and the Harvard School of Public Health. The wide-ranging poll found that these survivors of Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath remain physically and emotionally battered but unbroken. They praised...