Posted on 03/20/2019 5:13:21 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
(CNN)A Texas lawmaker has proposed a bill that would fine a man $100 each time he masturbates.
The bill also imposes a 24-hour waiting period if a guy wants a colonoscopy or a vasectomy, or if he's in the market for some Viagra.
Rep. Jessica Farrar, a Democrat, knows her bill isn't going to get very far. But she proposed it last week to make a point and give male lawmakers a taste of their own medicine.
Farrar has long been an advocate of women's health in a state that has made it extremely difficult for women to get abortions. And the bill, by pointing out a sexist double standard, is meant to shine a light on the obstacles women deal with when it comes to their health care.
"Let's look at what Texas has done to women," Farrar told CNN. "What if men had to undergo the same intrusive procedures?"
Even the name is a jab
Farrar's bill would penalize men for masturbation because such behavior is a failure to preserve the sanctity of life and "an act against an unborn child."
Even the bill's name -- "A Man's Right to Know Act" -- is a jab at a pamphlet Texas doctors are required to give women seeking abortions.
That pamphlet, "A Woman's Right to Know," has long been criticized for being inaccurate, ideologically influenced by religion and designed to discourage women from getting abortions.
One section of the pamphlet says breast cancer and abortions are linked. Scientific studies have found no cause-and-effect relationship between the two.
"We have real lives to deal with," said Farrar, who pointed out that Texas has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world.
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You folks are missing the point. It could get rid of the deficit in no time if it were to go national.
Would the bill also provide 24/7 camera monitoring?
I would respond with a bill entitled “Men’s Abortion Rights Act”, where men are given the right to abort any legal responsibility for any child they father, with no child-support liability, if they decide they do not wish to be fathers.
After all, it’s just 9 months for the woman, but 18 to 21 years of financial responsibility for the man.
Watch feminist heads explode.
I'm thinking more along the lines of, "Let's look at what women have done to Texas."
I didn’t make the connection to homosexual sex. I’m sure I’m just lacking imagination.
Someone in committee should propose, in the name of equality, to also fine women who masturbate. Her reaction would be a hoot.
I'm sure Freepers can come up with some truly imaginative ideas.
Maybe they could make all men have some kind of computer chip implanted somewhere, or, as a qualitative, though not quantitative test, they could check for palm hairs--that sort of thing.
And of course, the government could install 1984-style cameras in all homes, paid for, of course, by the fines they collect.
She’s flubbed herself again and also enough to need glasses!
And, of course, this would only be enforced against Republicans, or other non-progressives
A society which claims killing babies makes women healthy? Cuz that’s essentially what they’re saying.
This is comparable to primitive societies which would put children and young women on the alter and gut them with a knife as a sacrifice to the gods for good growing season.
I’m dead serious with this analogy. I think it ties in well with the left’s primative earth worship
We need a ban on turkey basters.
Well there will be fewer blind men in Texas I suppose
Women masturbate. Fine them too. Women get colonoscopies. Make them wait. Women are often the beneficiaries of a man who uses Viagara. Oh, well. No fun tonight, toots.
Equality is equality. If a law were passed that made these provisions apply to everyone EQUALLY, as it should and as it must, it would lay even more burdens on women.
Can I pay in advance? Or, would that be considered prostitution?
Laz isn’t moving to Texas.
Doing her best to repeal the right to vote for womem.
I think it was #96 you were pinged to.
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Love of abortion stems from hatred for men?
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