Authorities are not agreed whether or not the operations of male vasectomy and evariotomy produce impotency or sterility.
Vasectomy is a trivial operation performed in a few minutes, almost painlessly with the use of cocain as a local anæsthetic; it is sometimes performed with no anæsthetic whatever.
Having already begotten several defective children and with nothing else in prospect but the production of the same kind, it is difficult to see from any standpoint why a vasectomy on the male would not be a merciful act.
It has been urged against vasectomy that it will work untold harm because it relieves of the responsibility of a probable parentage.
Shall we submit them to the tremendous hardship of still remaining under custodial care although to all intents and purposes sane, or shall we make their release contingent upon their submission to vasectomy or salpingectomy?
Vasectomy is the resection of a portion of the duct of the testicles, followed by ligature of the ends.
Of these two operations for the sterilization of men, vasectomy is preferable.
The vasectomy to protect the mother's life or to avert an evil heredity is a parallel case.
The Supreme Court of Washington[217] decided in favor of the law in a case where a man convicted of rape was sentenced by the trial judge to life imprisonment and to vasectomy as a punishment.
Most canonists, however, hold that the condition after vasectomyis technically impotence in the canonical sense.
Vasectomy tends to check masturbation, and the minds of the masturbators frequently improve after the operation.
Those who hold that vasectomycauses canonical impotence say also the constitution of Sixtus V.
The fourth case supposes that the vasectomy was done to cure the man of some malady.
Vasectomy may be done either at the request or by the permission of the vasectomized person; or by order of the State.
If the husband has syphilis, gonorrhea, leprosy, tuberculosis, or any other infectious disease, vasectomy is no protection for the wife.
We may not castrate a man, or do vasectomy on him, to preserve his continence, because there is no immediate subordination and connection between the members of the body and the salvation of the soul.
Vasectomy on him will prevent a propagation of his kind but will cure no disease.
When vasectomy is done by the State, it is done either as a penal or as a prophylactic measure.
If vasectomy is done merely to be able to use the debitum without the inconvenience of having children, it is evidently illicit.
Vasectomy is a simple "office" operation occupying only a few minutes and requiring at the most the application of only a local anaesthetic, such as cocaine; and there are no disturbing nor even inconvenient after effects.
Sterilisation of men can be effectively achieved by simple vasectomy or section of the vas deferens, and of women by the almost equally simple and harmless method of ligature of the Fallopian tubes (Kehrer's method as advocated by Kisch).
The operation of vasectomy in the case of males is a very simple one, which may be performed with the aid of a local anæsthetic, and may be said for all practical purposes to be unattended by any risk to the patient.
In regard to sterilization, the Committee find that the operation of vasectomy in men can be carried out under local anæsthesia, and is free from risk.
To consider in the first place the operation of simple sterilization (vasectomy or salpingectomy).
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "vasectomy" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
