Thursday, January 23, 2025

Making a point

I thought this was a joke.  Apparently not.

A Mississippi state senator has filed a bill called the "Contraception Begins at Erection Act."

Democrat Bradford Blackmon's bill would make it "unlawful for a person to discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo."

  
Then, we get the explanation.
Abortion is illegal in Mississippi as of July 2022, after State Attorney General Lynn Fitch certified the Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization decision and made Mississippi's 2007 "trigger law" go into effect.

[...]

"You have male-dominated legislatures in Mississippi and all over the country that pass laws that dictate what a woman can and cannot do with her body," Blackmon told Newsweek. "One of the reasons why this legislation is so important is that with the overturning of Roe v. Wade, it has not only impacted women's ability to get abortion care but it has also affected women's ability to access basic gynecological care that includes contraceptive care."
...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

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