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The empressof all

(29,100 posts) Mon Feb 13, 2012, 05:38 PM Feb 2012

Awesome Amendment to "Personhood": the "Spilled Semen" Clause

I posted this in GD but things move so quickly there I wanted to give you all an opportunity to chuckle and chortle with me.

I have been waiting for years for someone to propose this...Thank you State Senator Constance Johnson of Oklahoma for making my day...

"Oklahoma State Senator Constance Johnson, a Democrat, has offered an amendment to the “personhood” bill pending in the state legislature. The pending bill, if passed, would declare that “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 writes that “the Personhood bill would potentially allow governmental intrusion into families’ personal lives by policing what happens to a woman’s eggs without any similar thought to what happens to a man’s sperm.” Her amendment reads:"

http://www.alternet.org/newsandviews/article/788681/awesome_amendment_to_%22personhood%22:_the_%22spilled_semen%22_clause/#paragraph4

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002306317

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Awesome Amendment to "Personhood": the "Spilled Semen" Clause (Original Post) The empressof all Feb 2012 OP

I posted that in the Oklahoma forum last week OKNancy Feb 2012 #1

but like TV ads, repetition only helps prove the point. ChairmanAgnostic Feb 2012 #2

I thought of you when I saw it was from Oklahoma The empressof all Feb 2012 #4

ho yah. i think we will haev this conversation at the dinner table tonight seabeyond Feb 2012 #3

Let the heathens spill theirs on the dusty ground Canuckistanian Feb 2012 #5

Is a sperm an unborn child? Yupster Feb 2012 #6

A sperm is "life". So when they prattle on endlessly about the "sanctity of life", kestrel91316 Feb 2012 #7

Seven posts and no mention of The Meaning of Life? Gormy Cuss Feb 2012 #8

ha ha. lol nt seabeyond Feb 2012 #9

I laughed so hard when I saw this. kdmorris Feb 2012 #10

OKNancy

(41,832 posts)

1. I posted that in the Oklahoma forum last week

Reply to The empressof all (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 05:47 PM

Feb 2012

when I first read it. LOL
http://www.democraticunderground.com/107275

ChairmanAgnostic

(28,017 posts)

2. but like TV ads, repetition only helps prove the point.

Reply to OKNancy (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 05:49 PM

Feb 2012

and by point, I do NOT mean the viagra based one.

When push comes to shove, the further that these GOPers go to the far, far, right, the more likely that people will finally come to realize that they are liberal at heart, not conservative, and that being liberal is the most ethical, moral, and human (AND humane) way to live.

The empressof all

(29,100 posts)

4. I thought of you when I saw it was from Oklahoma

Reply to OKNancy (Reply #1)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 05:56 PM

Feb 2012

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Is this getting much press there? I think it's time it spreads all over the internet... It's priceless!

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)

3. ho yah. i think we will haev this conversation at the dinner table tonight

Reply to The empressof all (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 05:53 PM

Feb 2012

with my two sons, lol

Canuckistanian

(42,290 posts)

5. Let the heathens spill theirs on the dusty ground

Reply to The empressof all (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:22 PM

Feb 2012

God will make them pay for each sperm that can't be found.

Yupster

(14,308 posts)

6. Is a sperm an unborn child?

Reply to The empressof all (Original post)

Mon Feb 13, 2012, 06:59 PM

Feb 2012

Doesn't it have to join with an egg to meet anyone's possible definition of an unborn child.

Aere there fundies out there calling sperm cells unborn children?

The only time I've ever heard it is people against it making fun of the idea.