Posted on 02/23/2012 3:37:48 PM PST by Olog-hai
As members of Georgia’s House of Representatives debate whether to prohibit abortions for women more than 20 weeks pregnant, House Democrats introduced their own reproductive rights plan: No more vasectomies that leave "thousands of children ... deprived of birth."
Rep. Yasmin Neal, a Democrat from the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro, planned on Wednesday to introduce HB 1116, which would prevent men from vasectomies unless needed to avert serious injury or death.
The bill reads: "It is patently unfair that men avoid the rewards of unwanted fatherhood by presuming that their judgment over such matters is more valid than the judgment of the General Assembly. ... It is the purpose of the General Assembly to assert an invasive state interest in the reproductive habits of men in this state and substitute the will of the government over the will of adult men."
“If we legislate women’s bodies, it’s only fair that we legislate men’s,” said Neal, who said she wanted to write bill that would generate emotion and conversation the way anti-abortion bills do. “There are too many problems in the state. Why are you under the skirts of women? I’m sure there are other places to be." …
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Democrats want more babies for the single welfare mothers who have replaced fathers with Gubmint.
Democrats encourage more abortions on demand to single, taxpaying women for whom a pregnancy is an inconvenience.
Democrats also want a pool of sperm donors for lesbian liberals.
Democrats want men to behave and vote irresponsibly.
Conservatives will have to pay for all of the above.
Point is, once you do it, you’re sterile. There will be no baby.
Abortion implies there IS a baby.
“Rep. Yasmin Neal, a Democrat from the Atlanta suburb of Jonesboro, planned on Wednesday to introduce HB 1116, which would prevent men from vasectomies unless needed to avert serious injury or death.”
How about to “protect the man’s health”?
If this had occurred in 1971, upon the eve of my marriage, and I found myself living in a state in which I could not get a vasectomy, well, the solution was obvious: go to another state and get it done.
Goodness, I didn’t read much of this—and it may be a joke—but that some people are even thinking this is mind-boggling.
Now, why is that?
This is where I really miss Cain. He was just starting to hit on the fact that black kids are 3 times as likely to be aborted than white kids. Essentially saying that the (white) Dems are perputrating a genocide on black kids. That was the point when the bimbo attacks started.
I realize that some people have mixed feelings on the above (and I won’t go there), but the bottom line was that his line of attack threatened to COMPLETELY sever blacks from Democrats, and destroy that party. Cain was just starting to point out the locations of the Planned Parenthood ‘clinics’.
“There is no equivalence between preventing a human life and destroying one.”
Ah.. but remember that the Democrats are going all-in to try to create the impression that there IS an equivalency. That’s their whole strategy with this bogus contraception issue they have been trying to gin up during the Republican primary. It’s their new strategy to try and reframe the abortion debate, by tying it to contraception, even though there is no logical connection.
!hat difference would it make? Oh, yeah, it would add even more kids to the welfare rolls. Georgia democrats sure are stupid. And so are the people who elect them.
An appropriate reply to this idea would be for republicans to enter a bill to establish a “legal abortion” for men. If abortion is a right, surely it’s an equal right. Through a legal abortion, a male could lawfully disclaim parenthood. After all, it is a woman’s right to decide when she will become a parent. Surely a man has the same right. Surely it isn’t just that a woman can decide when a man will become a parent.
Apples and oranges comparison.
Vasectomy compared to tubes tied is valid.
There is no valid equal comparison given men can’t get pregnant.
The only closest thing would be allowing men an equal say in whether the baby is aborted. Coin flip wins the decision.
No pun intended..right?
Boobs in government that is!!
Why are Democrats meddling in a Man’s Reproductive Rights?
You had my blood pressure going up for a second there.
The Democrats and the media want the public to think that the Republican Party and the Catholic Church are trying to prevent people from having access to contraception. The Catholic Church teaches that artificial contraception is wrong, but it’s not trying to use the power of the state to prevent people who disagree with its position from getting condoms or birth control pills. They are just opposed to the state forcing them to pay for something they consider immoral.
Actually, a vasectomy in men is equivalent to a tubal ligation in women.
A hysterectomy would be more like castration.
Nevertheless your main point is correct.
Yes!
*aarrrgggghhhh*
Yes, that’s true, but a larger part of their agenda is to cloud the topic of abortion, a losing issue for them, by tying it all up in a package with “Reproductive Rights”. Still, that phrase didn’t resonate enough, so they have come up with this “Republicans want to take your birth control” meme in order to make us look irrational on the whole issue.
seems like a good topic for the Moral Absolutes ping list
We should just let these guys move forward with the proposal, and allow everyone to see how ridiculous their position is.
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