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Pro-Choice Protest of the Day: Taking a page from the book of Virginia Democrat Janet Howell, pro-choice Oklahoma state Senator Constance Johnson (D) introduced an amendment to the Sooner State’s pro-life “personhood” bill (SB 1433) making masturbation illegal.
Oklahoma lawmakers are currently debating legislation that would make it mandatory for women to listen to their fetus’s heartbeat before being allowed to have an abortion.
To protest the bill, Sen. Johnson sought to have an amendment added that would make “any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman’s vagina…an action against an unborn child.”
Having made her point, she later voted against her own amendment.
“As a woman and a 31-year veteran of the legislative process in Oklahoma, I am increasingly offended by state law trends that solely focus on the female’s role in the reproductive process,” Johnson wrote in an op-ed for The Guardian’s Comment is Free. “With Oklahoma’s new, never-before-experienced Republican majority, we are seeing enactment of more and more measures that adversely affect women and their rights to access safe medical procedures when making reproductive healthcare decisions.”
[fox23 / guardian / photo: cbok.]
Excellent. This is the only logical end to those who accept no difference between a potential and an actual - the difference between an embyro, which has never until recently been considered an independent human being, and a fully viable human fetus. Those who are pro-life do not recognize that which gives man rights necessitating social protection - his identity, his rational faculty. Even ghastlier still, notice how the unliving do not possess rights - and how in order to craft “rights” for them, rights must be stripped from the living, such as the right of a woman over her body or the right of a young couple to enjoy their lives. We are not stock breeding animals, and those who preach suffering for those who have an unwanted pregnancy (pregnancy being subject properly to a large amount of prior planning) only seeking suffering for its own sake. Misidentification of reality leads to moral breaches, which permit any kind of atrocity to take place; if that which is true and verifiable is discarded, no rational standard can exist, and literally any standard except the right one can and shall be accepted.](http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lz6xgdIKwD1qzpwi0o1_1280.jpg)
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Pro-Choice Protest of the Day: Taking a page from the book of Virginia Democrat Janet Howell, pro-choice Oklahoma state Senator Constance Johnson (D) introduced an amendment to the Sooner State’s pro-life “personhood” bill (SB 1433) making masturbation illegal.
Oklahoma lawmakers are currently debating legislation that would make it mandatory for women to listen to their fetus’s heartbeat before being allowed to have an abortion.
To protest the bill, Sen. Johnson sought to have an amendment added that would make “any action in which a man ejaculates or otherwise deposits semen anywhere but in a woman’s vagina…an action against an unborn child.”
Having made her point, she later voted against her own amendment.
“As a woman and a 31-year veteran of the legislative process in Oklahoma, I am increasingly offended by state law trends that solely focus on the female’s role in the reproductive process,” Johnson wrote in an op-ed for The Guardian’s Comment is Free. “With Oklahoma’s new, never-before-experienced Republican majority, we are seeing enactment of more and more measures that adversely affect women and their rights to access safe medical procedures when making reproductive healthcare decisions.”
Excellent. This is the only logical end to those who accept no difference between a potential and an actual - the difference between an embyro, which has never until recently been considered an independent human being, and a fully viable human fetus. Those who are pro-life do not recognize that which gives man rights necessitating social protection - his identity, his rational faculty. Even ghastlier still, notice how the unliving do not possess rights - and how in order to craft “rights” for them, rights must be stripped from the living, such as the right of a woman over her body or the right of a young couple to enjoy their lives.
We are not stock breeding animals, and those who preach suffering for those who have an unwanted pregnancy (pregnancy being subject properly to a large amount of prior planning) only seeking suffering for its own sake. Misidentification of reality leads to moral breaches, which permit any kind of atrocity to take place; if that which is true and verifiable is discarded, no rational standard can exist, and literally any standard except the right one can and shall be accepted.
