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http://feministing.com/2012/02/09/senator-adds-every-sperm-is-sacred-amendment-onto-oklahoma-personhood-bill/Senator adds Every Sperm is Sacred amendment onto Oklahoma personhood bill
By Vanessa | Published: February 9, 2012
Amazing. After Oklahoma conservatives introduced a personhood bill to the state Senate on Monday, Sen. Constance Johnson decided to follow in Virginia Senator Janet Howells footsteps and attach an amendment in protest, which would add this language to the bill:
However, any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a womans vagina shall be interpreted and construed as an action against an unborn child.
Jezebel adds that another pro-choice senator added an amendment:
Another pro-choice legislator, Democrat Jim Wilson, attempted to add an amendment to the bill that would require the father of the child to be financially responsible for the womans health care, housing, transportation, and nourishment while she was pregnant.
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russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)Angry Dragon
(36,693 posts)russspeakeasy
(6,539 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)madinmaryland
(64,933 posts)dipsydoodle
(42,239 posts)to find use of that term which preceeded Monty Python so we might as well call it there's by right.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)a killer?
newspeak
(4,847 posts)anyone who'd vote for the likes of inhofe (a guy who I think is nuttier than a fruit cake) and thinking the muslins are attempting to push sharia law on us-by god, gotta have an anti-sharia law. And didn't they refuse the mortgage settlement money to help their fellow homeless oklahomans? Now, I'd see doing it, if they were going after the banks for criminal prosecution; but being as how they love them some corporations and banksters, I don't think that's the case.
G_j
(40,372 posts)LynneSin
(95,337 posts)causes me to lose my temper for no apparent reason and make those around me miserable contains a personhood in all that mess.
LeftinOH
(5,359 posts)titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)and have the world's largest circle jerk. I can't even comprehend this insanity. So if I blow a load into my wife's back versus her vagina i could be violating the law in Oklahoma?
xchrom
(108,903 posts)Taking the 'personhood' bill to it's extreme.
LynneSin
(95,337 posts)Since men have no problem controling women's reproductive organs then why shouldn't we have the right to control men's reproductive organs
titaniumsalute
(4,742 posts)I read the other articles about this and realized that SHE was the one making sense and being satirical.
sarcasmo
(23,968 posts)mysuzuki2
(3,521 posts)My body makes sperm and stores them for future use. If they are not used, they die and are reabsorbed. So by this same logic every woman who refuses to have sex with me (BTW this group comprises BY FAR the majority of women I know, damn it!) is in effect MURDERING those millions of unborn sperm cells that die a lonely death in my seminal vesicles or wherever. Therefore, declining to have sex with me constitutes genocide! All of the above is sheer nonsense of course. It's not that much more ridiculous than the proposal put forth by these state senators however.