Program offers free birth control for men
Men don't have a lot of birth control options, but a Muskegon County donor has offered to pay for nine men to receive the permanent one. The Peggy Jensen and Gerald Nehra Donor Advised Fund, part of the Community Foundation for Muskegon County, will pay for nine low-income Muskegon County men to receive vasectomies if their insurance doesn't cover the procedure. A vasectomy cuts and seals off the tubes that carry sperm into a man's semen, so he can still have sex and ejaculate but can't get a woman pregnant. It doesn't protect against sexually transmitted infections, so men who are not in mutually monogamous relationships still should use condoms. The surgery takes about a half hour and general anesthesia isn't typically necessary, making it less complicated then female sterilization. "Most of the men who've had them have been able to go back to work the next day," Public Health Muskegon County Maternal Child Services Supervisor Gwen