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"What if every time American women went into pharmacies to get our prescriptions for birth control pills refilled, pharmacists required us to reveal our marital status, and then further required all married, female patients to bring our husbands into the store to sign a consent form before the prescribed contraceptives would be handed over?"
But would it surprise you to learn that apparently, many doctors in this country REALLY DO require men who come to them seeking vasectomies to 'fess up to marital status, and to then get their wives' written consent before the physician will perform the procedure? In some cases, doctors require a face to face meeting with a man's wife - in addition to the signed consent from her - before a vasectomy will be performed.
How did I discover this? Well, without getting all up in my husband's business by offering too many details, suffice it to say that he and I can now credibly report that this inexplicably retro violation of men's rights to privacy and medical autonomy actually does take place.
"EVERY night for the last year, Kathy Ruttenberg has been taking a bath, putting on pajamas, turning on CNN and getting into bed with a little pig named Trixie.
Randy Harris for The New York Times
Kathy Ruttenberg with her potbellied pig, Trixie.
"She's a great cuddler if you lie still," said Ms. Ruttenberg, a 53-year-old artist who lives near Woodstock, N.Y. "But if you're restless, she gets annoyed, and her hooves are very sharp." "
"Most gentlemen callers don't even make it to the bedroom. One bolted when Ms. Ruttenberg, who has a total of 160 animals on her sprawling mountainside property, let a baby goat into the living room after Trixie, the pig, had already joined the visit.
"I thought he would find a little goat charming," she said. "But after the pig, it was too much for him. Especially as the goat, Iris, was leaving droppings on the floor."
Another date fled, after some wine and a soak in the hot tub under the stars, when Oola, one of the resident pigs (black, 150 pounds) charged and tried to bite him.
"And then, the last guy I had in the bed was freaked out by the rabbit," Ms. Ruttenberg said. "He's huge, and he got territorial seeing this guy in the room, so he started thumping and picking up his dish in his mouth and tossing it in our direction." "
"Nathaniel, was a California teenager who became a father in 1995. The mother of Nathaniel's child was named Ricci, and at the time of conception, she was thirty-four years old. Nathaniel, however, was merely fifteen. Although Nathaniel admitted to having sex with Ricci voluntarily about five times, the fact that he was under sixteen years of age at the time made it legally impossible for him to consent to sexual intercourse. In other words, under California law, Nathaniel was not only a new father, but was also a victim of statutory rape. Nonetheless, in a subsequent action for child support, the court held that Nathaniel was liable for the support of the child who was born as a result of his rape. According to the court, "Victims have rights. Here, the victim also has responsibilities.""
Theoretical rhetoric versus practical reality.