Every Sperm Is Sacred! Dem. Lawmaker Sneaks 'Life Begins at Ejaculation' Amendment into Vile 'Personhood' Bill

Despite being rebuffed by voters in Mississippi and Colorado, proponents of the “personhood” movement are still pushing to enact legislation in states like Utah, Ohio and Oklahoma that would give zygotes the same rights as American citizens. These bills would not only criminalize abortion in all circumstances, they would also outlaw common forms of contraception, as well as in vitro fertilization.

To poke fun at the absurdity of the measure, Oklahoma state Sen. Constance Johnson (D), has tacked on a provision affirming — in the words of a famous Monty Python song — that every sperm is sacred:

State Senator Constance Johnson of Oklahoma City has served Oklahoma’s 48th Senate District since 2005, but it was yesterday’s introduction of Senate Bill 1433 that really pushed her over the edge. The bill sought to define human life as beginning at the moment of conception, before it’s even implanted in the womb, and offers full legal protection to those tiny multicelled lumps. In the words of the bill, “the unborn child at every stage of development (has) all the rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons, citizens, and residents of this state.”

Johnson submitted an amendment of her own to the bill, which would have added the language,

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.

Among other things, Johnson’s amendment would essentially outlaw oral sex, anal sex, and masturbation. Were it not a satirical bill, it would almost certainly be deemed unconstitutional.

To prove that her amendment was in jest, Johnson voted with her colleagues to table it later in the day. But it does illustrate a serious point: only about half of fertilized eggs develop into a pregnancy. If Republican lawmakers are willing to declare every cluster of cells with the potential to become a fetus a person, why stop at fertilized eggs? Why not sperm as well?

To protest the inherent sexism of the personhood bill, another Democratic senator attempted to add an amendment that would require the father of the child to be financially responsible for the mother’s health care, housing, and other expenses while she is pregnant.

By Marie Diamond | Sourced from ThinkProgress

Posted at February 9, 2012, 6:32 am

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My Thoughts:

The whole concept of legally establishing personhood on a cluster of cells, is absolutely nuts. Here are some of the medical conditions that would be a criminal act under these bills:

• A tubal pregnancy, which can rupture critical blood veins and cause the women to bleed to death and also to become sepsis (infection of the blood) which is also fatal to the women. The small cluster of cells would die because they are not receiving any blood supply from the woman, and when the woman dies, there is no medical way so far to remove the few cells and incubate them into a human. Are these law makers going to have surrogates waiting in the next room to receive these cells to incubate?

• Spontaneous Miscarriage. That's when the body rejects the zygotes even after it attaches to the uterus. There are many reasons the body will reject it. Infection, failure of the cells to do what their supposed to do, some even become a cancer rather than developing human cells.  This would also be a crime.

• When there are problems either with a miscarriage or other reproductive issues, a D&C is required. That is vacuuming out any tissue in the uterus, including a zygotes and fetuses that are not developing or have died or are infected and threatening the life of the woman. This common procedure would be a crime. 

• And of course any otherwise legal termination of a pregnancy, whether it be elective, because of rape or incest. To perform one of these constitutionally legal procedures would be a crime in that state.

• All forms of contraception that prevent the fertilized egg from attaching to the uterus, thus passing out of the body. These include most forms of the "Pill," IUDs, and other hormonal applications. Thus to use one of these forms of birth control would be a crime.

• There is the situation that after sexual intercourse sperm will fertilize an egg and that egg will expel from the body, never attaching to the uterus.  When this happens, there is a crime that has been committed. Of course, unless they make a law that requires every woman to collect any discharge from their vagina that will be tested in a lab to determine if there was a fertilized egg among the gunk. 

 So even though the Democrat Senator added the lyrics that ...every sperm is sacred.  This is in fact what these laws are progressing to. So in the end they will legislate that every sperm and every egg, even before they meet are sacred and therefore must not be lost, but must be preserved at all cost.

Enough all ready. Let's not regress back to the religiously oppressive dark ages.