Vasectomy in Poland is illegal? Why?

yes but it's not connected with religion and that was my point.

Vasectomy should be illegal everywhere. Vasectomy causes terrible short and/or long term pain complications in about 30% of men who make this mistake. Surprised??? So was I, but finally figured it out. Men with reasonably good outcome like to brag same as gamblers only talk about when they win. Where do you think the sperm go after vasectomy? Do a little real research before you open your big mouth. Millions of men have their life ruined by vasectomy, chronic and terrible pain. I speak from EXPERIENCE. 99% OF MEN CHOOSE TO NOT TELL OF A BAD OUTCOME. You are more likely to get the truth from a wife than her husband, ask the wife about his vasectomy, not him. If Poland has outlawed vasectomy this should be the best reason. A civilized country would do this for her citizens. So far as common sense goes remember: Men don't get pregnant. Vasectomy is sometimes part of a womans divorce plan. Check the statistics.

In other words, there is a 99% chance that you are lying when you say that you speak from experience.

Thanks for dropping by.

Vasectomy is illegal in Poland so as to make sure this doesn't happen:

hnn.us/articles/1796.html

An irrelevant and pointless link. If anything it's banned due to a synergy of relligious prejudice and the fragile male ego.

Have you read the article?
I find it very relevant and to the point.

"Polskie prawo (art. 156 §1 k.k.) stwierdza, że kto powoduje ciężki uszczerbek na zdrowiu w postaci pozbawienia zdolności płodzenia podlega karze pozbawienia wolności od roku do lat 10. Tylko wskazania lecznicze sprawiają, że zabieg ten jest legalny. Dokonany z innych wskazań, nawet za zgodą lub nawet na żądanie osoby zainteresowanej jest uważany za nielegalny[1]."

Translation mine:
The Polish law (art. 156 section 1 of the Penal Code) states that whoever causes serious bodily injury by depriving a person of their fertility shall be punished by a custodial sentence lasting from 1 year to 10 years. Only medical reasons make this procedure legal. Performed for any other reason, even if the person involved agrees to it or expressly demands it, the procedure shall be deemed illegal.

There are lots of other contraceptive options out there, and there is no reason to perform an operation which may or may not be reversible, but could easily be abused under the wrong conditions.

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Then you've clearly got a screw loose if you think that the subject of the article, Nazi Eugenics and its origin, have anything to do with contraception.

There's a reason most European countries don't ban vasectomy - as far as I know only Poland, Ireland and the Vatican City have any problems with it.

Evidently you think people shouldn't have freedom over their own bodies.

Not contraception as such, but sterilisation. Have you actually read the article?


Contraceptive pills, patches, condoms, contraceptive injections, IUD, contraceptive implants, spermicidal gels... and more. These products give me all the control over my body I need.

On the other hand, vasectomies and hysterectomies are invasive procedures which can be theoretically performed without the person's knowledge (e.g. during an unrelated operation) and, as in the US, in Sweden, or in Nazi Germany, can serve as a powerful tool for "improving society", i.e. eliminating unwanted individuals from the gene pool. I wouldn't call that "freedom over my own body", quite the opposite.

corvalliscommunitypages.com/Americas/US/Oregon/corvallis/eugeneics.htm

I know, the links are about the US, but I use them as an example of what Poland is trying to steer clear of. I also understand that these sort of atrocities don't happen in the US anymore, but they did well into the seventies.

Sterilisation isa form of birth control, chosen by many.


Gosh, you certainly take plenty of precautions - talk about belt and braces! But what about the freedom of others to choose a different method?


Is that a reason to ban anyone from choosing the procedure or criminalising a surgeon who performs it as an elective procedure?


The Polish ban is pre-war. Nothing to do with Nazi Germany.


We aren't talking about your body - what you do with it is your choice. The issue here is the freedom of others to choose this option.

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Forced sterilisations are an atrocity if done on a large scale - the handful done in the UK over the past few years were all decisions of the high court in exceptional circumstances. The other 99.99999999% were done as somebody's informed choice.

Er nope?!

Two friends have had it done. A now deceased and well known DJ had it done years ago and spoke about it.

No issues in Ireland - maybe the church has voiced disapproval, I dunno - nobody I know would pay attention anyway. Certainly legally, medically, it's routine and has been for years.

That's good - did they change the law?

Since when? This is news to me.

I'm sure birth control used to be illegal there. I knew a lady who used to take suitcases full of various things across on the ferry.

Ah OK. A bit different but I get your point. But vasectomy wasn't viewed the same way as the pill or condoms etc as far as I know.

Anyway, that particular anachronism was addressed over 30 years ago Jonni !

Sensible really. So it's just Poland and the Vatican who ban it! Anachronism - yes, it must have been at least thirty years ago.

I hope you are only pretending to be so... well... unintelligent.


You conveniently forget the actions of the US (also pre-war). BTW, Nazi Germany was also largely "pre-war". It didn't suddenly appear on the map in September 1939.


Well I'm sorry, but this one freedom in the case of Poland has not been granted. So they probably need to choose from one of the various other legal options out there, or go abroad to have their tubes tied / snipped.

I wasn't even "of age" then - you must be knockin' on a bit then Jonni! (sub-topic related feeble pun intended)

Magdelena, you sound it bit paranoid to be honest.

And why should this limit peoples' planned parenthood options today?


Why should they?

You may as well ban tattoos. They're invasive, have associated health risks and Nazi Germany also forced people to have them.

Because we should learn from history?


Because that's what the law of the Republic of Poland says. Unless and until that law is changed, things will remain as they are. You should start campaigning for the legalisation of sterilisation in Poland if you think it's such a good thing. Why not? Maybe you are right and they will change the law and everyone will be happy. ;->

If there is a lesson to be learnt. And in this case there isn't.


I expect they'll do that themselves eventually, or more likely an EU ruling will do that sometime far in the future, when they get around to it. In the meantime, there's no shortage of cheap flights to, dare I say it, more enlightened places. If you dislike vasectomy so much, why don't you campaign for it to be banned in the UK - you'll find plenty of space under the sandwich board for your presumably bulky supplies of:

My thoughts exactly.


UK is not my country, and I don't presume to tell the citizens of the UK what their laws should be.

Though as citizen of an EU member state who has lived there for over six years, you are fully entitled to have your say when it comes to voting.

Only thing it reeks of to me is lawyers circling like sharks round a whaling ship.....
Its not illegal,thats been clarified,the law is there to prevent unwanted operations being carried out on vulnerable people,correct? So,the only reason those restrections will be in place is to cover Doctors backs from law suits a few years down the line when the kid grows up a bit and realises that the woman of his dreams wants his children or she is walking......

Bit pathetic comparing a modern man or woman making an informed choice regarding the course they want their life to take and Nazi enforced sterelisation programs. In fact its damned insulting all round,to those women in striped dresses being forced in front of X ray machines and to the womam or man today who decides for whatever reason that they dont want any/more children,damned insulting. Sorry,but this really is a case of just who on gods earth do you think you are?

And damned hypocritical too,on the one hand you are happy to trot out the same vile stereotypes of one set of the nazis victims and on the other you seek moral highground condeming informed voluntry sterelisation as a "nazi" idea.....yuck.

Some friends of mine in UK had a child and the pregnancy almost killed the woman. They had tried a number of years and been told it wasn't possible for them to conceive... yet they did.

The husband chose to have a vasectomy to limit the danger of another pregnancy which might endanger his wife. Their son is healthy and delightful. So, not a matter of debauchery or life without progeny in their case.

Debauchery? So it's coitus-highly-improbable-us or it's debauchery?

Or it could be well balanced, normal, healthy, intimacy between people who care about each other? No?

And.... I had it and there was no mutilation or negativeness at all, apart from all the horde of female medical students observing. Made me feel a bit of a prick and I wanted tell them "It's cold in here Ok! Ok!!".

because this is a noob conservative country

Knob not noob, surely?

Even in UK its not that easy a doctor must be happy to do the op and you must see a counsellor first to get theoOK and that your doing it for the right reasons I had it done after my 3rd kid as the wife didn't want anymore kids but the pill is not really healthy long term and condoms are just horrible (I have a latex allergy) the doctor was wary at first as I was 26 at the time until I explained that 3 kids under 7 was enough motivation for me to have it done and man it is not painless it sucks

I am Pro-life and Polish but Poland's anti tube tying and anti-vasectomy lines are the Pro-Life movement on STEROIDS!!!!!!!! It is better and more healthy for a women or men to fix themselves after they have had the desired number of children then go on artificial birth control or kill unwanted babies through abortions. HYPOCRISY!!! Thank God I live in Canada at least the abortion rate has come down in Canada thanks to these procedures.T hat's right Polish CONDOMS DOn't work but North American ones do. So Polish guys get a relative in Canada/US send you SHICK CONDOMS- and you'll get the real thing not some Chinese or Russian fraud imitation of a condom.

Is still illegal for Polish men to cut their balls?