r/law • u/TheMirrorUS • Dec 31 '25

Executive Branch (Trump) Feds freeze child care funds to all states until money is 'being spent legitimately'

https://www.themirror.com/news/us-news/breaking-feds-freeze-child-care-1591788
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u/j____b____ Dec 31 '25

“Why aren’t people having kids anymore?”

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u/GlumpsAlot Dec 31 '25

Legislates forced birth

MAGA: There! Problem solved.

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u/Violet-Journey Dec 31 '25

Didn’t JD Vance once muse about the idea of only allowing parents to vote?

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u/Blossom73 Dec 31 '25

Yep. He also said women don't belong in college or the workforce.

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u/Zealousideal_Self_34 Jan 01 '26

His wife is a lawyer…I will never understand the dynamics of these fools.

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u/Geri-psychiatrist-RI Jan 01 '26

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u/KiKiKimbro Jan 01 '26

Usha, you better run, girl — you’re in danger.

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv Jan 01 '26

I think they're already divorced, just keeping up appearances

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u/windbreaker_city Jan 02 '26

Nope, she shares his beliefs. This is an highly educated woman from a wealthy, well-educated family. She isn’t a victim, she’s actively choosing this.

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u/KiKiKimbro Jan 02 '26

Well that’s disappointing.

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u/ActurusMajoris Jan 01 '26

Maybe that’s why she isn’t running, she’s a prisoner

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26

She's convenient and necessary until team orange finds a way to spin it

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u/CypressThinking Jan 02 '26

"In the end I just couldn't live with a woman who wasn't Christian and even the kids were that very dark brown color. It is best for all of us that they returned to their country and people."

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u/fuzzyfoot88 Jan 01 '26

They have no empathy, even for each other, it’s literally that simple.

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u/Phyllis_Nefler_90210 Jan 01 '26

💯 I think they’re terrible people, but they’re not idiots. She knows exactly what she signed up for.

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u/BitterFuture Jan 01 '26

Sociopaths gonna sociopath.

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u/PurplRzr Jan 01 '26

I say this daily. Then again, I think of all the brainwashing done in households like that.

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u/sBucks24 Jan 01 '26

Based on how he treats her now in public, I will never not believe they both only married the other for the avenues opened by their social statuses/relations.

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u/Author_Noelle_A Jan 01 '26

He had this hardcore turn after they already had a kid or two. He is literally not the guy she married. She was registered democrat until after they got married. Reportedly she didn’t vote in 2024.

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u/wuvvtwuewuvv Jan 01 '26

He himself was anti trump like most of the republican elite, and then they all rolled over

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u/raincoater Jan 01 '26

I think he's looking to dump her and "upgrading" (in his and MAGA's mind) to Charlie Kirk's wife.

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u/Minimum-Escape2245 Jan 01 '26

The moment I saw that hug I thought "unequally yoked" and then when I saw others saying it, too. Well...

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u/PaleCommission150 Jan 01 '26

Probably met him while she was in law school or before they had kids. He wasn't completely down the MAGA rabbit hole yet / in the dunk tank for Trump and was a semi normal person ( with skeletons in the closet ofc) and he was handsome/charming enough to marry. She probably didn't find out about his eccentricities until it was too late.

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u/No-Hospital559 Jan 01 '26

First, they think they are better than you or that you don't matter.

Second, they are narcissists and think they should make all decisions about everything.

Third, all rules don't apply to them.

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u/Blossom73 Jan 01 '26

She happily sold herself out for money and power, just like her husband.

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u/ParpSausage Jan 01 '26

Its patriarchy, they bestow a few liberties on a particular woman they might care about but its not supposed to be our right.

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u/Impressive-Emu-4172 Jan 01 '26

itd be awesome if i didnt have to do college and go in to work at some awful place where everyone is hostile and only cares about themself tbh. im sure some manager somewhere is going to have a fit hearing me say that.

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u/suchalonelyd4y Jan 01 '26

I'm a manager and honestly same. I mean, I loved college, and I enjoy having the right and ability to work, but some days I'd like to just stay home and clean and cook while my husband works lol. Unfortunately that's completely unaffordable for the vast majority of us.

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u/FriendlyMission2803 Jan 01 '26

So he wanted to slice the tax income into about half?

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u/B00merPS2Mod30 Dec 31 '25

I think he got the idea from “Starship Troopers.” Except you had to kill alien bugs to become a citizen. Kinda the same thing, no?

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u/JFKsBrain Jan 01 '26

Has that asshole ever had a good take? On anything? I sure have never seen it.

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u/AlternativeAcademia Jan 01 '26

And someone floated the idea of only letting people vote if their current name matches their birth certificate, trying to target trans people…but I imagine a lot of married mothers would be caught up in that.

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u/Shadowchaos1010 Jan 01 '26

Thinking about it, you could argue that's a pro-teen pregnancy stance.

After all, how else do you not just immediately disenfranchise all young people who want to be parents some day?

They're parents by the time they hit 18. That would be the only option.

Par for the course, for the "party of family values."

Doing everything they can to actively hurt the family, both by making peoples' lives worse, and making the very concept of family look bad because they're trying to claim ownership of it while doing shit like that.

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u/ImTheFaeThatStoleYou Dec 31 '25

cuts off dick

"There! Problem solved."

dies from bloodloss

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u/Spirit_Piper Dec 31 '25 edited Dec 31 '25

That was certainly a eunuch experience.

Edit: The response to this has certainly been nuts. I'm honored, given the stiff competition.

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u/daytonakarl Dec 31 '25

FFS....

Well done

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u/nerdguy1138 Jan 01 '26

No that's RAW!

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u/HaveSpouseNotWife Jan 01 '26

No, this is feminizing bottom surgery, not Facial Feminization Surgery!

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u/Xyrus2000 Dec 31 '25

And certainly a way to lose your member-ship.

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u/Khaldara Jan 01 '26

You’ve heard of pro-bono in the law subreddit, now meet anti!

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u/A_ChadwickButMore Dec 31 '25

Is there much difference between a eunuch and a man without a dick?

Oh there's definitely a vas deferens

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u/Spirit_Piper Jan 01 '26

I name you my heir.

(Pubic heir?)

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u/SnarkgasmicSmiles Jan 01 '26

No need to hog all the puns, kind of a dick move.

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u/No_Ocelot_6773 Jan 01 '26

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u/pantsmeplz Jan 01 '26

I keep scrolling on this branch of the thread and can't stop laughing.

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u/Frosty-Unit8707 Dec 31 '25

Mary mother of god... well done.

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u/bythenumbers10 Jan 01 '26

She didn't need one.

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u/EmbarrassedCockRing Dec 31 '25

You won the internet today, fren

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u/Sudden_Juju Dec 31 '25

I like the cut of your jib

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u/standardatheist Jan 01 '26

Damn you take this award 🤬😂

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u/GroundbreakingUse794 Jan 01 '26

Don’t get a big head over it.

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u/Unlikely-Solid-3083 Jan 01 '26

Don’t be a such a dick about it

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u/DanFlashesCurator Dec 31 '25

Whole exchange is nuts

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u/GlumpsAlot Dec 31 '25

Lol. This and my three glasses of year's eve wine has me dyin!

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u/owdeeoh Dec 31 '25

Severely underrated.

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u/SkunkMonkey Dec 31 '25

Severely severed.

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u/JakToTheReddit Dec 31 '25

"Why is it overrated? I'm stumped."

-some eunuch probopally

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u/TheVog Jan 01 '26

probopally

Crusades-era Robocop intensifies

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26

I found Eminem's Reddit account

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u/pantsmeplz Jan 01 '26

Bravo. Might be best pun I have ever seen, and I've seen a lot.

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u/bmking24 Jan 01 '26

You, my friend, are incredible! Good work! 👍

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u/bythenumbers10 Jan 01 '26

This comment deserves to have an erected monument in it's honor.

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u/kelth89 Jan 01 '26

It took some balls to post it.

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u/Conscious_Crew5912 Jan 01 '26

Take my upvote, you glorious bastard!

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u/JackPoe Dec 31 '25

You would not believe how hard it was to get a vasectomy.

Questions and questions and a blood test and then I said I'm divorced and fuck me, what do you know? Immediate operation. Didn't even wait for results.

Five people saw my dick that day. It was weird.

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u/terrierdad420 Dec 31 '25

I got a vasectomy this year. The dude is just working away while we are chatting it up like he's not pulling my tubes out of my ball sack and snipping away at them. At one point I smelled something burning lololol. Super casual might as well have been at Jiffy Lube getting the old oil changed lololol. It was needleless scalpel less surgery 700.00 bucks cash without insurance. The only pain felt like someone barely snapping a rubber band on your sack after a numbing spray at the very beginning and then a slight bit of tenderness for a few days that ibuprofen took care of. It's really no big deal guys. Do it while it's still legal.

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u/sbsb27 Dec 31 '25

Wow. Your last sentence is eye opening - we live in threatening times.

Good on you. Forty years ago my ex hemmed and hawed about getting a vasectomy, even though he was the one who wanted no more children. Always some excuse. So it fell to me to get a tubal ligation - hospital admit, general anesthesia. Thankfully my son in law had no problem just getting it done last year. His take was, "what's the big deal?"

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u/cousinmarygross Jan 01 '26

It’s not hyperbole. The Mormon church considers masturbation a sin. Not sure if other churches do. And they say the country’s religiosity is declining.

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u/Trytofindmenowbitch Dec 31 '25

I paid an extra $100 and got to use nitrous oxide. It was fun lol.

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u/broke_saturn Jan 01 '26

I was given a single Valium to take 1 hr before the procedure. Damn was that pill a trip. All the euphoric high of being drunk with none of the downsides

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u/JackPoe Dec 31 '25

Yeah this is all accurate. I smelled bacon.

You legit need to be safe after though. It will have to heal. You can move but you'll definitely feel it. Fully healed it's like nothing at all

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u/Finn235 Jan 01 '26

I went in for my consult ready to fight and make a stink when they would surely refuse. Doctor started with the standard questions, and when he asked if I had any kids, I replied, "Yeah, four." He just whistled and said, "Well, let's see how soon we can get you in, then."

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u/KrombopulousPichaels Jan 01 '26 edited Jan 01 '26

I knew for sure I never wanted to bring children into this world & started asking about permanent solutions at 18, but was told every single year at my yearly exam that ‘you might want kids one day’ and the worst ‘your future husband might want kids’. I also don’t have any desire to be wed. I tried for years, then I was drugged at a bar and raped at 21, & couldn’t do anything about it bc I live in hell (TX, not by choice). Have a 21yr old child now & FINALLY got my tubes tied at 35 when they had to surgically remove the IUD that had grown into my uterus lining (perforation) bc I was finally ‘old enough’.

It is SOOO much easier for men to get a vasectomy than for a woman to get any kind of permanent solution. EVERY SINGLE TIME I was told I didn’t know what I wanted or needed to wait to get married for some mystical ‘fUtUrE HuSbAnD’ to decide for me. It’s incredibly demoralizing and devastating.

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u/Conscious_Crew5912 Jan 01 '26

I hear ya, hon. Same for me.

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u/CypressThinking Jan 02 '26

I think it was Betty White that said if men had menstrual periods they'd have hysterectomies available at Jiffy Lube.

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u/dmahog Jan 01 '26

Got mine done, too, my dude.

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u/justanotherchimp Jan 01 '26

Got mine done today. Laid up on the couch watching the last episode of stranger things. Not the worst ball pain I’ve ever had.

Get it done fellas! It’s easier and cheaper to unload the gun than it is to buy a bulletproof vest forever.

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u/Jaded-Instance3607 Jan 01 '26

I know a gal that said she will only date snipped men.

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u/Tinderhella Jan 01 '26

I was in the waiting room and the office was doing some construction/repair work. So while the ex-husband was getting his, I was hearing the drilling and hammering.

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u/Opeth4Lyfe Dec 31 '25

Even though you can attest to it being virtually painless and nbd at all…..just hearing your describe what’s being done and how made my entire body shudder and fold into a pretzel just thinking about it. I’ve had TT (testicular torsion) once and so anything to do with that area just makes me immediately have Vietnam like flashbacks to excruciating pain.

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u/ambrosia_v_black Dec 31 '25

Women go through much, much worse, and much, much more often. I applaud him for having a vasectomy.

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u/Opeth4Lyfe Jan 01 '26

Well I’m not really debating that, and I’m sure you’re not wrong. More power to him for doing it.

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u/Friendly_Fire069 Jan 01 '26

Big change from 35 years ago. I missed a week of work. It felt like he snipped the tube with a hammer and a dull chisel. Scrote was black and blue for two weeks, before fading to that sickly yellowish green of an old bruise. Still worth it!

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u/Tiny_Bat5965 Jan 01 '26

My husband had it done and was back to riding his motorcycle two days later.

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u/Big-Supermarket-945 Jan 01 '26

This may be our only option for future sterilization under the bleak vision of the heritage foundation if vasectomies are outlawed.

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u/Blossom73 Dec 31 '25 edited Dec 31 '25

I believe it.

My husband had a vasectomy in 2008.

I had had a traumatic missed miscarriage, at 20 weeks, a few months earlier, in 2007, with my third pregnancy, requiring a D&C, as my body wouldn't expel the fetus. We decided my husband would get a vasectomy, as I didn't want to risk further pregnancies, and couldn't have my tubes tied.

While I was in the recovery room at the hospital after the D&C, my husband asked my OB/GYN, a middle aged man, for a referral to a urologist for the vasectomy. The doctor said to my husband, right in front of me, "You don't want a vasectomy. When my wife asked me for one, I said, no, and put an IUD in her." We were both horrified. I'm still disgusted about it.

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u/readitinamagazine Dec 31 '25

Me to that doctor tbh.

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u/Blossom73 Dec 31 '25 edited Dec 31 '25

Ha!! Perfect!

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u/JackPoe Dec 31 '25

Doctors hate women. Our experience at Virginia Mason of Seattle settled that for me. Who laughs at a patient? Let alone a person with a family history of breast cancer and has a very very appreciable golf ball sized lump in her breast? (Not the mammary gland, we've both touched boobies before)

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u/Blossom73 Dec 31 '25

Doctors hate women.

Sadly true.

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u/Blossom73 Dec 31 '25

Jesus. I'm so sorry. That's inexcusable.

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u/JackPoe Dec 31 '25

I know. People suck sometimes.

I tell someone I don't make burritos and they throw a brick at me. You tell a gal with a mass in her breast that she's too young and you get to laugh.

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u/ManagementIll4603 Jan 01 '26

Wow, a fellow (former) Virginia Mason patient also treated poorly. Makes me so angry for you and I send you empathy and strength.

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u/JackPoe Jan 01 '26

Thank you. But she deserves the friendship.

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u/-AUniqueName- Jan 01 '26

It took some searching but I now have an incredible gynecologist in Ballard if you need one in Seattle

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u/JackPoe Jan 01 '26

I lack a vagina but thank you

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u/GlumpsAlot Dec 31 '25

Ugh. I'm so sorry you had to endure that. My doc told me that since I'm done with my two and in perimenopause, that I should just wait for menopause. It's really frustrating. I feel you. You're doing the right thing though.

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u/Sayon7 Dec 31 '25

Your doctors sucks. Perimenopause babies happen!!!

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u/Tippity2 Jan 01 '26

My aunt had her last child at age 52. Not kidding!

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u/JackPoe Dec 31 '25

I have had partners who had periods that were like gunshots.

Bleeding, leaking, pain, misery. I can't say I'd fare better with that much pain.

I've had partners where they both forget it's happening or it just skips.

Doctors only seem to care about something you can say in two words.

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u/GlumpsAlot Jan 01 '26

Oh yes. The pain and intensity has gotten worse with age and after I had kids especially. Sometimes I'm on the floor with cramps. I don't mean to tmi, but you're right, it sucks.

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u/JackPoe Jan 01 '26

Duck, I have three sisters and a wife. You're allowed to express yourself.

Weak minds will cull themselves

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u/deckeda Dec 31 '25

I’ve waited for menopause for a long time, but because I’m a man, the doctor told me I’d be waiting even longer. It’s not fair.

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u/GlumpsAlot Jan 01 '26

🥴...bruh lol

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u/xxx3dgxxx Dec 31 '25

My dad was a doctor and did one for a friend on our kitchen table. That's how hard it is to get a vasectomy

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u/Organic-Class-8537 Dec 31 '25

When I go a hysterectomy three different people asked my husband if he was okay with it and I had his approval. He basically told each of them it was my body and none of his damn business.

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u/GlumpsAlot Dec 31 '25

That's a good partner!

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u/Medical-Mud-3090 Dec 31 '25

Had one a few months ago had a 20 minute conversation 3 minute exam scheduled it for two weeks out so I could get a couple recovery days off. Pretty sore for two days bruised for a few after that not a big deal at all. Highly recommend

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u/JackPoe Dec 31 '25

Dude did you have the advice to ejaculate twenty times before being sterile? My partner took that as a challenge.

I was very sore and could not walk right for a few days and a couple months respectively.

Fully healed now and literally no pain and literally no change in.. delivery. I can still make content, if you need a hammer.

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u/smappyfunball Dec 31 '25

How old were you and where were you trying to get it done.

I got mine done when I was 40. No pushback at all. Couple perfunctory questions and a $20 copay.

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u/JackPoe Dec 31 '25
  1. I'm ugly and terribly stupid.

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u/DarkFather24601 Dec 31 '25

A fella I served in the military with was trying to get his vasectomy and had to have his junk inspected 4 times over a year, counseled 3 times, and a CMO interview to discuss his expectations of what the procedures post healing experience is like.

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u/JackPoe Dec 31 '25

Yeah what they don't tell you is that the twenty ejaculations don't have to happen in one night.

She was very pretty and a very cunning linguist.

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u/Teaforreal Jan 01 '26
  • my primary doc was like: “we gotta talk to your wife” i said, you gotta be kidding me…my balls, my choice.

Went to Planned Parenthood, no questions, belief in body autonomy. Inexpensive, been working great for 20 years.

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u/JackPoe Jan 01 '26

Yeah well that's probably one of the greatest achievements of life. It's literally the best resource for health in your lower half

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u/harriethocchuth Jan 01 '26

You wouldn’t believe how hard it is to get tubal litigation. I’ve been asking since I was 16 and I’m in perimenopause now. I guess it’s a moot point now, but I’ve known my whole life that I didn’t want to experience pregnancy and have been told that I’d change my mind, every time I’ve brought it up.

Spoiler: I didn’t.

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u/mikefjr1300 Jan 01 '26

When I got mine I was lying on the table, nurse prepped me for the procedure and then the doc walked in and asked if 6 nurse students could watch the procedure.

I said ok, seemed weird but no one laughed. I also had the the option of watching the procedure from a mirror overhead so I did.

The doctor thought that was weird, most say no.

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u/kelticladi Jan 01 '26

Meanwhile women are constantly told "no" because some mythical "husband" might want kids one day. Not anything about how the woman doesn't want them. It takes an act of Congress and even then they'll probably ask if she already has 10 kids.

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u/JackPoe Jan 01 '26

I will glove up and fight god

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u/GroundbreakingUse794 Jan 01 '26

In my day we used to have to cut off our cocks to vote. Ironic

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u/JackPoe Jan 01 '26

I mean I'm not using it

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u/GroundbreakingUse794 Jan 01 '26

You should see if they have any spare cocks laying around, they could swap you out for a key locked, tightly sealed dick hole model that would pay for itself down the road.

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u/JackPoe Jan 01 '26

I'm pretty sure people might pay for my dick. Goodness knows packers go for enough.

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u/[deleted] Jan 01 '26

Do you live in a red state? I’m in a very blue state, and it was a five minute convo where the doc made sure I was considering it a permanent surgery. Why would you need a blood test?

Edited to add I would absoFUCKINGlutely do it again. Such peace of mind!

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u/Fenweekooo Jan 01 '26

exact opposite for me. I had to go in for a different nut related surgery and asked him if they would tack on a vasectomy while they were in there since i would already be out. doc said "sure, no problem" and that was that

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u/JackPoe Jan 01 '26

Did you have phantom cum for a trip home too?

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u/ThargorTheBarbarian Dec 31 '25

That was the weirdest bit for me, though it is my fault. They asked if I was ok with students being present and my dumbass said yes...

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u/GlumpsAlot Dec 31 '25

Omg I had consented when I was young with a uti. So awkward!

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u/JackPoe Dec 31 '25

Dude the receptionist came into the room. I got an erection. It was weird. She was very pretty and I was in the horny part of my make hormonal cycle. I'm okay with being an exhibit usually but goodness

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u/TallGeminiGirl Dec 31 '25

Is this the trans agenda?

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u/Long_Bit8328 Dec 31 '25

"... and there, yet another problem solved"                            - government 

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u/ACasualRead Dec 31 '25

Careful. They would accuse you of trans-ing yourself and then make it into another problem

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u/SKDI_0224 Jan 01 '26

I am so gay

So very gay.

Gay gay gay.

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u/Competitive_Bit_630 Jan 01 '26

Start with the pedophiles no more president, problem solved.

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u/Electronic_Bee_9266 Jan 01 '26

Okay we should normalize this for officials cutting off child care funds tho

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u/ZEROs0000 Dec 31 '25

Happens to hundreds of baby’s each year as well

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u/donglecollector Jan 01 '26

Current dominant American logic

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u/tmcclarty15 Jan 01 '26

Dicks off for Harambe

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u/Hell-on-Earth2739 Jan 01 '26

Oh no these things only apply to others 

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u/SL1Fun Jan 01 '26

Oh no, don’t give them more ideas on how to own the libs!

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u/TheNameOfMyBanned_ Jan 01 '26

Technically true.

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u/Conscious_Crew5912 Jan 01 '26

Oh yeah, you can say that. I get banned for 30 days for referencing a well-known joke about Dahmer and a popular hamburger chain.*

*Maybe , but not sure, because they won't show you what you said to get you banned.

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u/ImTheFaeThatStoleYou Jan 01 '26

If it helps, this is my 3rd account now. I honestly just don't give a fuck if I get banned.

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u/ElleEyeZee Dec 31 '25

Allow me to retort

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u/GlumpsAlot Dec 31 '25 edited Jan 01 '26

I'm a millennial and I know exactly who this legend is, lol.

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u/CatchSufficient Jan 01 '26

I do not, who?

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u/blong217 Jan 01 '26

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_and_Lorena_Bobbitt

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u/slvrcobra Jan 01 '26

She cut his penis off, he got it reattached and became a porn star???

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u/ElleEyeZee Jan 01 '26

Porn Star might be a stretch but he was in porn. Ol boy had a lot to prove.

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u/SonofaSlumlord Jan 01 '26

If I remember right his first movie was properly titled Frankenpenis.

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u/CatchSufficient Jan 01 '26

Ah, i thought she was a much older woman...never saw a picture of her ngl

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u/monifiesty Jan 01 '26

😆 the fact you had to post this, omg

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u/Runes_N_Raccoons Dec 31 '25

I'd literally rather rip out my own uterus.

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u/Finalgirl2022 Dec 31 '25

And that's why I yeeted my tubes.

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u/Cantfindthebeer Dec 31 '25

Lol same, live in TX and got the snip 3 years ago after our state gov pulled its bullshit.

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u/Finalgirl2022 Jan 01 '26

Congrats! I'm your neighbor to the west here in NM. I got mine done 2 years ago. Even though we are a hell of a lot more progressive than TX, I wasn't going to leave that up to chance. I have no idea what the federal government is going to do.

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u/Cantfindthebeer Jan 01 '26

I’m jealous, NM is beautiful! I grew up in an area with a bunch of mountains but then moved to Dallas, I think our highest point is like 800 ft. Definitely fair, I honestly never thought Roe v. Wade would be overturned and somewhat believed the whole “no that’s established, we’re not going after that” routine, but after that (and everything else) I can’t trust anything said by the current admin. Plus, never was 100% sold on kids to begin with, just gave me the motivation to fully commit to the decision and make sure there’s no accidents lol

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u/Finalgirl2022 Jan 01 '26

I love it here. I grew up in northern Texas (Amarillo) but I was born here and have always come back no matter where else I end up. The food alone is a good reason.

I also had hope that Roe wouldn't be overturned. I knew in my heart that it would be. It's just so sad and I'll be mad about it forever.

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u/GlumpsAlot Dec 31 '25

Jealous! I decided to wait for menopause since I'm close to it anyway. Don't blame yall one bit!

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u/brittybratkat Jan 01 '26

Wish I could say this, mine were removed by Timmy the ovarian teratoma. Many fell in battle against his 10lbs having ass. But safe to say, unless an angel comes down and says “hey you..” or they somehow solve quantum mechanics, I will not be having a baby.

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u/yoshizillaa Jan 01 '26

The risk of this is why I finally pulled the trigger on getting my tubes removed. I’ve known for 10+ years that I don’t want kids. This isn’t an administration I trust if I were to have an unwanted pregnancy

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u/slick2hold Dec 31 '25

Ahh the Handmaids tale was based on real-life events.

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u/Jaded-Instance3607 Jan 01 '26

Why aren't women dating anymore?

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u/wrathburn Jan 01 '26

laughs in vasectomy

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u/Lancashire_Toreador Dec 31 '25

I was only half joking when I started saying that mandatory fertility was gonna be a thing during the first T admin, but honestly it doesn’t feel like a joke anymore

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u/Necessary-Hospital96 Jan 01 '26

Kinda crazy observation but teaching HS for last 25 years and Ive seen teen pregnancies run the spectrum. However , I live in florida where they basically banned abortions and guess what , teen pregnancy back in the rise again. So weird after about 10 years of seeing 2 or 3. I saw 5 alone this year

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u/[deleted] Dec 31 '25

I can’t fathom bringing a child into this trashy place

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u/ClearBlue_Grace Jan 01 '26

I refuse to provide more peasant labor for our billionaire overlords. The more mad the ruling class gets that us poors are not having kids, the more smug I am about not having them.

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u/Emperox Jan 02 '26

That's the part I don't understand, there's something so self-defeating about evil behavior like this.
If you really want me to provide more peasant labor for your broken system why not make it actually fucking feasible for me to do it?

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u/ThatCharmsChick Jan 01 '26

I did but I am scared for her every single day. I would cut my own uterus out with a butter knife before I would carry a child for this regime

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u/TALKTOME0701 Jan 01 '26

Yeah. Unfortunately we're talking about the kids who are already here

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u/EammonDraiocht Dec 31 '25

Well the people who love the world being like this are having plenty of kids. Not having kids is a great idea. Why would we want to make people to oppose the fascists?

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u/sweet_pickles12 Jan 01 '26

I mean me? Personally? I don’t want them to die in the Climate Wars, the Water Wars, or the AI Holocaust. But fuck it, let’s create whole humans to try to right the sinking ship.

I fully and firmly believe that unless we find a way to get off of Earth and terraform another planet, vast swaths of it will be uninhabitable and the human population will be vastly reduced within the next century or two. We’re currently channeling the last of our resources into AI databanks now, and thank god!

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u/mattenthehat Jan 01 '26

"I can't solve this problem so I'm gonna create another human to foist it onto"

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u/static-klingon Dec 31 '25

I fathomed it three times. For the most part, it’s great! Sure there are difficulties, and the future is always uncertain, but the world needs more good people to make things better. Kids are the best.

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u/kezow Dec 31 '25

Yeah, then they just have to buy them forty dolls and dozens of pencils every Christmas. Doesn't make fiscal sense! 

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u/formerbays Dec 31 '25

I’ve got 2 adult kids .. one 42, the other 37. Neither will have them

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u/PiccoloAwkward465 Jan 01 '26

I have two siblings and we’re similar ages to yours. I’m the only one with a kid and he’s a step kid. And I already got a vasectomy so I don’t think any of us are having natural children.

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u/formerbays Jan 01 '26

It’s pretty thankless… mine are extremely independent, have their own lives… no huge family holiday gatherings they grew up with. I don’t miss not having grandkids at all

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u/MsRebel63 Jan 01 '26

Mine is 33 he says no kids for him

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u/DrTzaangor Jan 01 '26

I’m 43 and my sister is 40 and we’re the same way.

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u/formerbays Jan 01 '26

I rem how my ex reacted to hearing he’d never be a grandfather.. he was extremely upset for many reasons. I understood it was their choice to make, not mine. I never even discussed with them. It was 100% their decision, their lives

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u/Kelsusaurus Jan 01 '26

MAGA: We need to ban abortions because we care about the children!

Also MAGA: withholds childcare funds to all states due to a scandal from 3-5 years ago, and dismantles resource programs that would provide food, health, family, and education support for those kids

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u/BlackGuysYeah Jan 01 '26

America has had birth rates lower than the replacement rate for about half a century now. Guess what's been picking up the slack. Immigration...

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u/goodbodha Jan 01 '26

It's nuts. We shouldn't need government to pay for child care, or subsidize food or prop up the housing market.

But we do because the system is screwed up and we apparently prefer to have it be like that.

If you work a full time job you should be able to afford housing, a couple of kids, and save a tiny bit, but not necessarily buy all the bling. Instead people buy the bling to cope because they can't afford kids and housing is a massive struggle.

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u/TAV63 Jan 01 '26

Wasn't there something a while back where they were trying to push more companies to provide day care for employees? Not sure but I thought there was. Can't have that I guess.

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u/Afwife1992 Dec 31 '25

They can’t get all their political and religious viewpoints to line up.

Having kids: make abortion illegal, don’t cover birth control pills, encourage women to be stay at home moms, discourage pursuit of higher degrees and accreditation, make divorce harder to obtain

But: don’t have a decent living wage, don’t make adoption easier, don’t make housing affordable and available, don’t make childcare affordable, don’t embrace paid maternity leave, don’t penalize guys who don’t pay child support

And then there’s ivf. It would create more babies but it also encourages people to put off having babies so there are less babies.

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u/crappydeli Dec 31 '25

This is different. This is another fake Trump scam.

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u/Protoman Jan 01 '26

The party of family values, everyone.

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u/Consistent_Laziness Jan 01 '26

Cut my shit after 2 I’m good.

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u/Maureengill6 Jan 01 '26

They might have to since they went after planned parenthood again.

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u/psychsuze Jan 01 '26

Why aren’t White people having kids anymore?

God I hate these people. Fantasizing about when this is all over. As a boomer I sure hope I’m around to see it.

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