Patrice, 57, first heard about vasectomy while talking to French friends in Canada. “My wife and I had three children before we were 30, He says. We had tried every form of birth control – the IUD, condoms, spermicides… They were all restrictive. Until my wife’s menopause, we didn’t see ourselves using birth control. After the birth of our third child, I asked the doctor about a vasectomy, but he refused to operate on me.. And for good reasons. “Sterilization for contraceptive purposes” of a man or an adult woman was allowed only in 2001. according to the July 4 law. Three years before her vote, Patrice ended up having this vasectomy. “Back then we didn’t use the term ‘mental strain,’ but it was this idea that convinced the surgeon to operate on me. he explains. I pleaded that the birth control problem was stress…
Source: Le Figaro
