Oklahoma Democratic Legislator Fires Back at Neanderthal Colleague
Submitted by Anastasia Pantsios on Mon, 02/13/2012 - 12:01am.
You need to have a sense of humor to be a Democrat in Oklahoma. The reliably Republican state is represented in the U.S. Senate by Tom Coburn and James Inhofe, a couple of real pieces of work. It once sent to Congress the infamous Ernest Istook, who lobbied to prevent minors fro getting their hands on birth control (hard to believe that at one point it was only about minors given the sudden dramatic escalation of this particular battle in the war against women). Then asked if he didn't think this would cause more abortions, he said no because if they couldn't get contraception, teenagers would just stop having sex.
Now Oklahoma has decided to up the ante in the "Personhood" sweepstakes. Personhood Amendments have been on the ballot in Colorado (twice) and Mississippi and been defeated. Oklahoma state senator Brian Crain doesn't want to wait for voters to weigh in; he's introduced a Personhood bill into the Oklahoma legislature which would declare that full-fledged "life" as a fully autonomous "person" begins at conception, whenever that is, since it's impossible to tell.
This clown says, ""Most Oklahomans recognize we need to protect the unborn child." It' already passed out of committee by a vote of 5-2.
http://www.news9.com/story/16911385/new-oklahoma-senate-bill-argues-life...
Democratic senator Constance Johnson has fired back with her "life begins at ejaculation" amendment.
Demonstrating the absurdity of trying to assert by law exactly when "life" begins, she proposed to add to the bill,
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.
She admitted the amendment was satire, but there's nothing funny about the oppressive original proposal, which would declare a fertilized egg to be a person "with all the
rights, privileges, and immunities available to other persons,
citizens, and residents of this state.”
Another Democratic senator proposed another amendment which actually seems like a logical extension of that: she suggested that the father be required to be financially responsible for the mother’s health care, housing, and other expenses while she is pregnant.
Meanwhile, as Personhood proponents here in Ohio start to gather signatures hoping to put this odious amendment on the November ballot, opponents have launched Health Families Ohio, which you can connect with here:
http://www.facebook.com/HealthyFamiliesOhio
or here:
