Re: balanced fact based reporting please
@ Ian Johnston
"Many employers only give sick leave for illness, and using it for elective vasectomy, circumcision, or hysterectomy would be gross misconduct."
There are medically necessary reasons for all those ops.
e.g. vasectomy - 2 partners have genetic predisposition to an illness that would mean stillbirth / best case child lives a few agonsing months / years then dies. To avoid the mental health issues of that then a vasectomy makes sense (lower risk op than female sterilization, potentially reversible)
Circumcision - various nasty infections can necessitate this late in life
Hysterectomy is about the only option for women with severely debilitating endometriosis.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
