Posted on 03/14/2017 9:45:50 PM PDT by Morgana
FULL TITLE: Scientifically Clueless Pro-Abortion Legislator Wants to Fine Men for Masturbating as “Act Against Unborn Child”
A Texas state lawmaker’s new pro-abortion bill is doing what she created it to do – get attention.
The “satirical” Texas House Bill 4260, sponsored by state Rep. Jessica Farrar, would fine men $100 for masturbating and require the state to publish an informed consent booklet for men seeking a vasectomy, Viagra or a colonoscopy, among other things, according to The Hill.
The bill is Farrar’s protest to the abortion regulations passed in Texas in the past few years. She claims it would put the same restrictions on men that Texas abortion laws do on women.
“Although HB 4260 is satirical, there is nothing funny about current health care restrictions for women and the very real legislation that is proposed every legislative session,” Farrar, a Democrat, wrote on Facebook. “Women are not laughing at state-imposed regulations and obstacles that interfere with their ability to legally access safe healthcare, and subject them to fake science and medically unnecessary procedures.”
Her bill, which has no chance of passing, would prohibit ejaculation outside either a vagina or medical facility, in what it describes as an “act against an unborn child, and failing to preserve the sanctity of life,” according to the Independent. It also would provide conscience protections for doctors who do not want to perform a vasectomy or prescribe Viagra because of “personal, moralistic or religious beliefs.”
“What I would like to see is this make people stop and think,” Farrar told The Texas Tribune. “Maybe my colleagues aren’t capable of that, but the people who voted for them, or the people that didn’t vote at all, I hope that it changes their mind and helps them to decide what the priorities are.”
But pro-lifers say Farrar is the one who is isn’t thinking. Her bill ignores basic biological facts about human life and abortion.
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As Daily Wire contributor Harry Khachatrian commented on Twitter:
It is disingenuous for Farrar to equate male masturbation and ejaculation to the intentional killing of a human life through abortion. A man’s sperm and a woman’s eggs are not separate, individual new life. Only when they are put together do they become a human being – a separate, living human entity with his or her own unique DNA. This is well established science.
“A sperm has twenty-three chromosomes; even though it is alive and can fertilize an egg, it can never make another sperm,” former U.S. Surgeon General C. Everett Koop wrote in 1979. “An egg also has twenty-three chromosomes, and it can never make another egg. Thus, we have sperm that cannot reproduce and eggs that cannot reproduce unless they get together.
“All that makes up the adult is present as the ovum and the sperm are united – the whole genetic code,” Koop continued.
Pro-lifers do not want to end abortion because we want to control women’s bodies, as Farrar implies. Pro-lifers want to end abortion because it destroys the life of an innocent human being inside the woman’s body. Ending abortion is not about regulating something that has the potential to become a life. It’s about protecting an actual, unique, irreplaceable human life from being destroyed.
There is not, and has never been, a law to restrict women from seeking to abort their babies. The “restrictions” that Ms. Farrar imagines are actually regulations on the abortionists.
But thank you, Ms. Farrar, for pointing out that you do not consider abortion a medical procedure whose practitioners should be subject to the same regulations that govern actual medical professionals.
Pro-abortion proponents keep claiming that abortion is a form of medical care. But they do not want abortionists regulated like medical practitioners. Ergo, not even they believe that abortion is a form of health care.
Great and fitting image post!
$100?!?
Good thing I’m lord of the manor!
Took 43 posts for a Seinfeld ref to show up. Must be the interminable snow.
Then I guess blow jobs are also out of the question (gonna have to make it retroactive and fine Bill and Monica for sure) - not to mention (for the still youthful) night time emissions (wet dreams for the illiterate).
This woman legislator must have that scientifically defined term:
“Penis envy”.
She’s using the legislative process to grandstand. These people are pathetic.
Hypocritical of her to engage in political masturbation like that.
The TX Legislature meets once for about a six month period every two years. So, this is how this Dem wastes precious time that could be devoted to getting “real” legislation passed.
Texas is already about halfway through the six month legislative period for the next two years.
using the same strategy, wouldn’t she have to fine women every month?
I like to imagine Charleton Heston doing a reprise of the NRA slogan:
If they come to take my penis, they will have to pry it from my cold dead hand.
I think I could single handedly (pun indented) help the federal deficit if there was a federal tax on it... (Hey I might be ConservaTeen, but I’m still a normal teen!) :-)
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