Cape Cod Clinic Offers Men a Free Pizza with Vasectomy

Posted by Kevin Farrell on Apr 3, 2012 in Genital Warfare | 14 comments

A Cape Cod clinic is offering men a free pizza with their vasectomy, capitalizing on the fact that March is apparently the most popular time of year for men to exercise their reproductive rights. Other clinics have also taken the same marketing slant, suggesting that men get it done now so that they watch March Madness “guilt-free.”

Urology Associates of Cape Cod made local news with their ploy to get men in for surgery; watch the four-minute segment, wherein a reporter basically emphasizes the clinic’s sales pitch, below. And Virginia Urology is also getting attention for their new site, vasectomymaddness.com, where they pitch a similar argument for getting your vas deferens severed in time for college basketball’s biggest weekend:

Spend 3 days on the couch watching hoops with your wife’s approval! … Watch the Tournament While You Recover: Enjoy full days of uninterrupted basketball action from your couch.

Finally someone takes the time to highlight the plight of attention-starved male contraception! For too long women, and the shuttering of critical family planning and reproductive health services have hogged the limelight and national discourse.

Why should Republicans’ never-ending effort to strip Planned Parenthood of federal funding, the bombing of abortion providers’ clinics, jailing of pro-choice doctors for life, and employers lobbying (successfully!) for the right to fire female employees for using birth control be the only stories told on the contraception beat?

It’s about time that we spent some time talking about how these issues affect men! Finally, a story detailing the ways reproductive rights and health are affecting men.

Free pizza, y’all.

Gentlemen, the war on women in our country is very, very real. Not standing up for your mothers, wives, sisters, girlfriends, daughters and lady BFF’s is downright uncouth. Write your elected representatives and tell them to lay the hell off of your best gals’ ladyparts.

All the pizza under the sun isn’t enough to distract from what a humongous jerk you will be if you choose not to take a stand for women’s health and reproductive rights.

Carry on.

(via Blisstree)

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1599323512 Megan Dougherty

Right on!
http://www.facebook.com/rabblesthebinx Brian Frang

So….. are we saying vasectomies are bad? Cuz I really don’t want kids, and that pizza sounds pretty good. Also: I’m sorry, but I disagree with forcing religious groups (like private Christian schools, which are not subsidized by the government) to offer contraception to their employees. I feel it violates the first amendment to do so; however, non-religious entities, no matter HOW religious the company leaders are, should be required to have contraception on their insurance policies

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000370798803 Dani Faust

The religious groups aren’t paying any more to have contraception on their insurance plan. The employee is the one paying the premiums and deductibles, not the employer.
Religious or not, employers should all be held to the standard of letting contraception and other medical decisions be between a person and their doctor. Should jehova’s witness employers tell the insurance company not to cover blood transfusions?

http://www.facebook.com/rabblesthebinx Brian Frang

If it’s the Jehova’s Witness church that is the employer? Yes. Religious organizations have every right to hold employees of their religious organization to the rules and standards set forth in said religion. If you want birth control, don’t work for a Catholic Church, it’s that simple. But again, a catholic outreach mission that receives federal funding is a different story, and should be required to offer contraception
http://www.facebook.com/rabblesthebinx Brian Frang

Oh, also, Employers pay about 81% of their employees insurance premiums. Do research next time.

http://www.facebook.com/thomas.robert.miller Tom Miller

Bear in mind, that is if they choose to offer any coverage to their non-religion affiliated employees at all. That would be the slippery slope I would be concerned about. I’m just thankful I have the VA.

http://twitter.com/BlueScorpioMoon Jennifer

I don’t think anyone’s saying vasectomies are bad, just that it’s extremely relevant social commentary to take such a frivolous approach to male contraception (basketball! pizza! yay!) when women are basically under attack for the same thing.

Their approach is actually kind of amusing, and I’m all for whatever it takes to motivate more men to go this route, but at the same time it kind of pisses me off that we have a culture in which we can make light of this while women are called whores for being on the pill and told that if we don’t want to get pregnant we should keep our legs closed.

http://www.facebook.com/rabblesthebinx Brian Frang

The only thing I’ve ever been told about the pill is to never trust someone who says they’re on it and to always use a condom, regardless. A relatively small, yet vocal, group of closed-minded individuals is responsible for saying those awful things. And as a nation, we were outraged when they said it, so, I’m not really sure what makes you think our culture finds that acceptable.

http://twitter.com/BlueScorpioMoon Jennifer

Mostly the fact that the people who were vocally outraged were nowhere near a majority, and certainly not a majority of men. What makes me think our culture finds it acceptable is the fact that Rush is still on the air and that of the 4 people in my office besides myself, all of whom are men, 3 agree with him. Or the fact that the entire republican party is preaching the same thing, and Santorum has a large following. Or the fact that most of the men I associate with day to day feel the same way. There are, in my experience, very few men who don’t fall on the side of sexually active unmarried woman=slut, whore, tramp, stupid, uneducated, heathen, etc etc, and sadly, there are even a handful of women who agree with this. We have a culture that does not stand up for women in many regards; that treats women as sexual objects yet condemns us for being sexual. We have a culture that tells you to not trust a woman who says she’s on the pill, because she might be lying.

http://www.facebook.com/sammael88 Matthew Williamson

You don’t honestly think there is someone trying to pass a law where Xtian schools have to keep bowls of condoms or birth control pills handy for their employees, do you? What someone does with their medical insurance is the concern of that person and their doctor, no one else.

http://www.facebook.com/rabblesthebinx Brian Frang

That is where you are wrong. the second part of the freedom of religion clause is “or prohibit free exercise thereof” if the Catholic Church believes contraception is a sin, that’s their perogative, if you don’t like it, don’t work for them. Oh, and the contaception mandate in Obamacare does exactly that, it FORCES religious institutions that are NOT accepting money from the fed to offer contraception, and that is a clear violation of the free practice clause of the 1st amendment.

http://www.facebook.com/thomas.robert.miller Tom Miller

So, say for instance I am a gay employer and I am about to start offering medical coverage for my employees. I SHOULD be allowed to ask those “oh so illegal” questions of religion to my employees so as to determine whether or not I WILL offer to even extend coverage to those whose religions i do not approve of? Fair question since i now get to pick and choose who get what type of coverage if any.

tony romo

But why force nonreligious employees to be denied the same healthcare as people doing the same job in a nonreligious setting? is that not violating their rights? No one is forcing the members of the organizations that don’t like contraception to use it. and its important to remember that although an organization may disagree with something does not mean they should not be required to abide by it (equal employment, nondiscrimination clauses, and workers compensation are examples of requirements that people may be fundamentally apposed too, but must obey).

an answer to this is often “well then don’t work in a religious institution if you don’t want to follow their rules.” in answer to this I pose a scenario. I am a janitor, I have little education, and have a family to support. I am at poverty level, so I absolutely need any job I can find. should I then be forced to live with a job that denies me benefits just because it is the only one I can do?

Another question I have for you is Where does it end? If a religious employer can claim that their organizations beliefs go against birth control in insurance, what about Gay employee benefits? many religious schools teach that homosexuality is not ok, so should they be able to deny benefits to employees who they discover are gay?

http://twitter.com/BlueScorpioMoon Jennifer

UB – thank you. You get it. Thank you.

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