Georgia assembly moves to ban abortions, Dem women respond with vasectomy ban

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Georgia assembly moves to ban abortions, Dem women respond with vasectomy ban

Last edited Tue Feb 21, 2012, 04:41 PM USA/ET - Edit history (1)

This afternoon, the House Judiciary (Non-Civil) Committee will take up HB 954, a measure that would prohibit abortions on women who are more than 20 weeks pregnant. Current law prohibits abortions after the second trimester, or about 24 weeks.


(In response)

“Thousands of children are deprived of birth in this state every year because of the lack of state regulation over vasectomies,” said Rep. Yasmin Neal, author of the bill. “It is patently unfair that men can avoid unwanted fatherhood by presuming that their judgment over such matters is more valid than the judgment of the General Assembly, while women’s ability to decide is constantly up for debate throughout the United States.”


House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams added, “The Republican attack on women’s reproductive rights is unconscionable. What is more deplorable is the hypocrisy of HB 954’s author. If we follow his logic, we believe it is the obligation of this General Assembly to assert an equally invasive state interest in the reproductive habits of men and substitute the will of the government over the will of adult men.


Way to go, Stacey!

http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2012/02/21/democratic-women-seek-a-state-ban-on-vasectomies-for-men/

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1002335965

Ok now if there was talk of banning women the right to get their tubes tied, then they would have a point.
However as usual they are so far off base that it is crazy. They are 2 different things, one is preventing conception, the other is killing what has already been formed.

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“Thousands of children are deprived of birth in this state every year because of the lack of state regulation over vasectomies,” said Rep. Yasmin Neal, author of the bill.

If that's the case, then thousands of children are deprived of birth because a woman refused the advances of some man who wanted to bed her.  So make a law saying women can't refuse to have sex with any guy that wants her.

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