<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;font-size:12pt">Even better:<br><br><div>The Wilmington City Council has a message for men -- sperm are people, too.</div>
<div>The council for Delaware's largest city passed a <a href="http://www.wilmingtonde.gov/docs/1029/3641.pdf" target="_hplink">resolution</a>
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.</div>
<div>"[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."</div>
<div>The vote came the same day that the U.S. Senate <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/01/blunt-amendment-vote-fails-senate-contraception_n_1313287.html" target="_hplink">voted down an amendment</a> that would have given employers the right to refuse any health care service to employees for moral reasons.</div>
<div>Walsh isn't the first lawmaker to introduce such a measure. <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/10/oklahoma-senator-constance-johnson-satirical-amendment-ejaculation_n_1268768.html" target="_hplink">Sen. Constance Johnson, a Democratic state senator from Oklahoma, introduced and later withdrew an amendment</a>
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.</div><br><div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div style="font-family: times new roman, new york, times, serif; font-size: 12pt;"> <div dir="ltr"> <font face="Arial" size="2"> <hr size="1"> <b><span style="font-weight:bold;">From:</span></b> Tom Hansen <thansen@moscow.com><br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">To:</span></b> Moscow Vision 2020 <Vision2020@moscow.com> <br><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cc:</span></b> Fritz Knorr <fritzknorr@gmail.com>; Marilyn Beckett <marilynbeckett@gmail.com>; Joann Muneta <jmuneta@uidaho.edu>; Janet <fozzibear931@verizon.net>; Wild Idaho Rising Tide <wild.idaho.rising.tide@gmail.com>; Helen Yost <helen.yost@vandals.uidaho.edu>; Dr. Dinah Zeiger <dzeiger@uidaho.edu>; Lois Blackburn <loisb@q.com>; Friends of the Clearwater
<foc@friendsoftheclearwater.org>; Steve Wesner <swesner@dadco.com>; Penni Cyr <cpenni@gmail.com>; Cindy Barnhart <cindy@festivaldance.org>; Emily Poor <emilypoor@gmail.com>; Kathy Judson <ponysnpups@gmail.com>; B J Swanson <bjswanson@gmail.com>; Linwood Laughy <lin@wildblue.net>; Brett Haverstick <bhaverstick@yahoo.com>; Jacqueline Bradish <jbradish@roadrunner.com>; Jane Kauzlarich <indigo3239@msn.com>; Sally Perrine <sperrine@potlatch.com>; Borg Hendrickson <chicory@wildblue.net>; Jeanne McHale <jeannemchale@hotmail.com>; ""Fiddlin' Big Al" Chidester" <alchidester@juno.com>; Cheryl Halverson <basketmakeart@yahoo.com> <br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sent:</span></b> Friday, March 2, 2012 2:58 PM<br> <b><span style="font-weight: bold;">Subject:</span></b> [Vision2020] What Goes Around, Comes Around<br> </font> </div> <br>
<div id="yiv1269388324"><div><div><span>Courtesy of the Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Missouri) at:</span></div><div><br></div><div><span></span>http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2012/03/representative_stacey_newman_vasectomy_control_legislation.php</div><div> <br><span>---------------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span><h1 class="yiv1269388324entryHeadline" style="margin-top:0px;margin-right:0px;margin-bottom:10px;margin-left:0px;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;border-top-width:0px;border-right-width:0px;border-bottom-width:0px;border-left-width:0px;border-color:initial;outline-width:0px;outline-color:initial;font-size:26px;vertical-align:baseline;background-color:transparent;font-family:Georgia, Times, serif;font-weight:normal;line-height:26px;border-bottom-color:initial;color:rgb(49, 99, 156);text-align:left;text-decoration:none;float:left;width:560px;">MO Rep. Stacey Newman
Proposes Bill to Restrict Vasectomies</h1><div style="font-family:Arial, sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:16px;"><br></div></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span></span></div><div><span><br></span></div><div><span>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.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Ah, the legislation's on the other set of genitalia now. </span><br><span>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.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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.</span><br><span></span><br><span>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. </span></div><div><br></div><div><span></span>---------------</div><div><br></div><div>Missouri House Bill 1853</div><div><br></div><div>http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/biltxt/intro/HB1853I.htm</div><div> <br><span>---------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman (D-St. Louis County)</span><br><span></span><br></div><div><img src="cid:1.2830269730@web46110.mail.sp1.yahoo.com" id="yiv126938832415ADC876-E98C-4366-8900-AE7D0AA906B1" height="250" width="250"></div><div><span></span> <br><span>---------------------------------------</span></div><div><span></span> <br><span>Seeya later, Moscow.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Tom Hansen</span><br><span>Post Falls, Idaho</span><br><span></span><br><span>"If not us, who?</span><br><span>If not now, when?"</span><br><span></span><br><span>-
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