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Letter: Make health care fair

By Michele Black, Vancouver
Published: January 4, 2024, 6:00am

For those men who think they have the right to make health care decisions for women, here’s an idea to make it fair. Government should require a vasectomy for the guy who impregnated the woman when the pregnancy ends in abortion. This will certainly stop any future abortions that result from this man’s sexual activity.

Also, since HIPAA doesn’t seem to apply to women who choose to end a pregnancy and it is reported to the state (creating shame and sometimes dangerous harassment), let’s make it so any man who sees a physician for a vasectomy or treatment of an STD also be made public. After all, if I am a religious zealot who does not believe in birth control or sexual freedom, then I certainly have the right to know whose choices are counter to my beliefs. Fair, right?

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