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G_j

(40,366 posts)
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 01:25 PM Feb 2012

Senator adds “Every Sperm is Sacred” amendment onto Oklahoma personhood bill

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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 Howell’s 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 woman’s 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 woman’s health care, housing, transportation, and nourishment while she was pregnant.

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Senator adds “Every Sperm is Sacred” amendment onto Oklahoma personhood bill (Original Post) G_j Feb 2012 OP
The Onion, ....right ? russspeakeasy Feb 2012 #1
Nope Angry Dragon Feb 2012 #2
good god..., holy shit, and I'll be damned. Incredible. russspeakeasy Feb 2012 #4
No - Monty Python dipsydoodle Feb 2012 #5
That's what I thought when I saw this thread!! madinmaryland Feb 2012 #15
It wouldn't be easy dipsydoodle Feb 2012 #16
Let me get this right. My daily act that keeps my prostate healthy and mind sane makes me sarcasmo Feb 2012 #3
there must be something in the water in oklahoma newspeak Feb 2012 #7
these amendments were attached in protest nt G_j Feb 2012 #9
Only if you think that monthly act that drives me bonkers, makes me grumpy, LynneSin Feb 2012 #12
That could backfire: Some nutjobs may support it. n/t LeftinOH Feb 2012 #6
I wish about 250 men would surround her house titaniumsalute Feb 2012 #8
It's a pro-choice ammendment attachment. xchrom Feb 2012 #10
It's meant to help defeat the anti-choice bill LynneSin Feb 2012 #13
Yup titaniumsalute Feb 2012 #14
+1 sarcasmo Feb 2012 #17
I think this bill does not go far enough! mysuzuki2 Feb 2012 #11

dipsydoodle

(42,239 posts)
16. It wouldn't be easy
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 03:00 PM
Feb 2012

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)
3. Let me get this right. My daily act that keeps my prostate healthy and mind sane makes me
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 01:32 PM
Feb 2012

a killer?

newspeak

(4,847 posts)
7. there must be something in the water in oklahoma
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 01:42 PM
Feb 2012

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.

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
12. Only if you think that monthly act that drives me bonkers, makes me grumpy,
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 02:20 PM
Feb 2012

causes me to lose my temper for no apparent reason and make those around me miserable contains a personhood in all that mess.

titaniumsalute

(4,742 posts)
8. I wish about 250 men would surround her house
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 01:48 PM
Feb 2012

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?

LynneSin

(95,337 posts)
13. It's meant to help defeat the anti-choice bill
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 02:21 PM
Feb 2012

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)
14. Yup
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 02:39 PM
Feb 2012

I read the other articles about this and realized that SHE was the one making sense and being satirical.

mysuzuki2

(3,521 posts)
11. I think this bill does not go far enough!
Fri Feb 10, 2012, 02:15 PM
Feb 2012

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.

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