From Andrew Sullivan:
Oklahoma legislators introduced a bill yesterday that says “the life of each human being begins at conception.” But state Sen. Constance Johnson, a Democrat, decided that the bill, SB 1433, didn’t go far enough to protect unborn children. Johnson added an amendment to the bill, posted online by The Lost Ogle, that says life actually begins at ejaculation: “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.”
From Virginia:
Irked by abortion bill, Va. senator adds rectal exams for men
The state Senate this afternoon gave preliminary approval for legislation that would require pregnant women to undergo ultrasound imaging before an abortion, but not before rejecting a Democratic senator’s attempt to add what she described as “a little gender equity” to the bill. Democrat Janet Howell of Fairfax County proposed requiring men to undergo a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before getting prescriptions for erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra. “This is a matter of basic fairness,” Howell said…. “It’s requiring [women] to have unnecessary medical procedures, it’s adding to the cost and it’s opening them up for emotional blackmail,” she said on the Senate floor today.
And now Mississippi:
Mississippi State Rep. Steve Holland, a Democrat, introduced a bill in the state’s lower chamber calling for the part of the Gulf of Mexico that borders his state to be renamed the “Gulf of America.” A local Latino GOP organization called on Holland to withdraw the measure. “If this bill passes the legislature and is signed into law, perhaps it is time to rename the Mississippi River,” wrote Bob Quasius, Café Con Leche’s president, in the letter. “After all, sharing a name with a state that wants to rewrite maps out of disdain for Mexicans would be a disgrace to the rest of the nation.”
February 11th, 2012 at 12:06AM
Stuff like the first paragraph always makes me smile.
I think of the homunculus theory that a little (wo)man was present in sperm. Reduction to absurdity of course would mean an infinite number of little creatures one inside the other.
And of course that brings to mind the old “turtles all the way down” story of the woman’s retort to a smart-alecky Bertrand Russell that the earth was held up by a tortoise that stood upon a tortoise..
It’s turtles all the way down, young man.
Is this a great country or what?
February 11th, 2012 at 12:46AM
I, for one, look forward to upcoming lectures on sex by President Gingrich.
February 11th, 2012 at 12:50AM
Oh, and I guess these Oklahoma people have read up on their Onan.
February 11th, 2012 at 8:05AM
Democrats for the return of Medieval science? So much for the “reality-based” community.
And Onan is the least of it. Think what Sen. Johnson will make of the anthropophagy of Clintonian sex?
February 11th, 2012 at 12:47PM
Satire: a literary work holding up human vices and follies to ridicule or scorn.
February 11th, 2012 at 7:27PM
Malfeasance: When even Juvenal himself would object to the use of satire to score cheap political points in crafting laws for one’s community.
February 11th, 2012 at 9:28PM
Riiight … because no-one pushing the kind of bill so brazenly unconstitutional that even the National Right to Life’s counsel calls it “utterly futile” could ever be accused of grandstanding, yes?
February 12th, 2012 at 7:04AM
Brazen: labeling laws proposed by elected representatives (which are not satire) “unconstitutional” before they have been adjudicated by a “controlling legal authority”.
February 12th, 2012 at 7:38AM
Then go badger the NRL Committee; they’re the ones who have written this off as pointless showboating.
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