[Vision2020] What Goes Around, Comes Around

Fri Mar 2 16:25:30 PST 2012

Even better:

The Wilmington City Council has a message for men -- sperm are people, too.
The council for Delaware's largest city passed a resolution by an 8-4 vote Thursday calling on the Delaware legislature, other 
state legislatures and the U.S. Congress to pass laws granting 
"personhood" rights to eggs and sperm. The resolution was authored by 
councilwoman Loretta Walsh as a protest in the current battle over 
women's health care access.
"[E]ach 'egg person' and each 'sperm person' should be deemed equal 
in the eyes of the government and be subject to the same laws and 
regulations as any other dependent minor and be protected against abuse, neglect or abandonment by the parent or guardian," says the resolution. "[L]aws should be enacted by all legislative bodies in the United 
States to promote equal representation, and should potentially include 
laws in defense of 'personhood,' forbidding every man from destroying 
his semen."
The vote came the same day that the U.S. Senate voted down an amendment that would have given employers the right to refuse any health care service to employees for moral reasons.
Walsh isn't the first lawmaker to introduce such a measure. Sen. Constance Johnson, a Democratic state senator from Oklahoma, introduced and later withdrew an amendment to a "personhood" bill that would have given zygotes the same rights as adults. "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," reads the amendment.

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Subject: [Vision2020] What Goes Around, Comes Around

Courtesy of the Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Missouri) at:

http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2012/03/representative_stacey_newman_vasectomy_control_legislation.php

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MO Rep. Stacey Newman Proposes Bill to Restrict Vasectomies

Well, well, well. The birth-control debate has finally come to our swimsuit areas, gentlemen. Yesterday Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman (D-St. Louis County) filed HB1853, which would only allow a man to have a vasectomy when doing so would protect him from serious injury or prevent his death.

Ah, the legislation's on the other set of genitalia now. 
Rep. Newman -- whom I'd like to nominate for Hero Squad right here and now -- has been frustrated with the recent political debates over birth control access and reproductive health. The legislation is her pointed way of combating the idea that family planning is something only women have to worry about.

If passed, HB1853 will insure that vasectomies will only be performed in medical facilities licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services, such as a hospital, ambulatory surgery center or similarly designated health facility. Vasectomies will be legal and safe, and the back-alley ballsnipper that so many indigent men are forced to seek out when they want to get their junk switched off will become a thing of the past. For too long, men have butchered themselves using weed-whackers, small chainsaws and footballs to the groin so that they could no longer father children they didn't want to be a father to. HB1853 will bring us to a more enlightened age.

Also, it could conceivably cause one of those right-wing bible-fondlers who are so certain that they have the authority to dictate what women can do with their bodies to choke on both indignation and irony. Bitter, bitter irony. 

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Missouri House Bill 1853

http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/biltxt/intro/HB1853I.htm

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Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman (D-St. Louis County)

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Seeya later, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Post Falls, Idaho

"If not us, who?
If not now, when?"

- Unknown

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