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Tuesday, February 21, 2012

House dems want to be the boss of your man parts

Posted by Gwynedd Stuart on Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 11:33 AM

In the Georgia House, republican legislators are attempting once again to further limit the circumstances under which women can choose to have abortions.

HB 954 — which would ban abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy versus the 24 weeks the law now allows for, and would make fewer concessions for the health of the mother — goes before the House Judiciary Committee today. In response, House democrats are having a little fun and proposing legislation that would completely ban vasectomies.

In a press release, House Minority Leader Stacey Abrams said, “The Republican attack on women’s reproductive rights is unconscionable. What is more deplorable is the hypocrisy of HB 954’s author [Doug McKillip, R-Athens]. 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.”

Wouldn't that be CRAZY? For the government to tell men what they can and can't do to prevent unwanted pregnancies?

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Just to nit-pick, abortion isn't exactly *preventing* unwanted pregnancy, it's *ending* it. I don't see where the House GOP is trying to prevent a woman from having an IUD or getting her tubes tied ... or are they? That's s'posed to be the job of the Catholic Church.

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Posted by Saul T. Knutts on 02/21/2012 at 1:28 PM

dudes should have to go through a prostate exam before they get boner pills

"Just to nit-pick, abortion isn't exactly *preventing* unwanted pregnancy, it's *ending* it."

the 'preventing unwanted pregnancy' part is in probably in reference to male options, so the tense of it works out

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Posted by eric pfeifer on 02/21/2012 at 1:37 PM

"the 'preventing unwanted pregnancy' part is in probably in reference to male options"

That's kind of my point. The whole thing is based on a non sequitur.

Still delightfully clever, though.

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Posted by Saul T. Knutts on 02/21/2012 at 2:14 PM

Every boner is a gift from God, and none should ever go wasted.

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Posted by TeeJay on 02/21/2012 at 3:02 PM

"Every boner is a gift from God, and none should ever go wasted."

if your junk goes flat, who are you to tamper in god's domain by eating boner pills? don't you know that all science is SATAN??

if god wanted us to enjoy sex, he wouldn't constantly guilt trip us about it

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Posted by eric pfeifer on 02/21/2012 at 3:26 PM

I believe George Carlin put this best.

"See the really hardcore people will tell you life begins at fertilization. Fertilization, when the sperm fertilizes the egg. Which is usually a few moments after the man says 'Gee, honey, I was going to pull out but the phone rang and it startled me.' Fertilization.

But even after the egg is fertilized, it's still six or seven days before it reaches the uterus and pregnancy begins, and not every egg makes it that far. Eighty percent of a woman's fertilized eggs are rinsed and flushed out of her body once a month during those delightful few days she has. They wind up on sanitary napkins, and yet they are fertilized eggs. So basically what these anti-abortion people are telling us is that any woman who's had more than more than one period is a serial killer! Consistency. Consistency. Hey, hey, if they really want to get serious, what about all the sperm that are wasted when the state executes a condemned man, one of these pro-life guys who's watching cums in his pants, huh? Here's a guy standing over there with his jockey shorts full of little Vinnies and Debbies, and nobody's saying a word to the guy. Not every ejaculation deserves a name.

Now, speaking of consistency, Catholics, which I was until I reached the age of reason, Catholics and other Christians are against abortions, and they're against homosexuals. Well who has less abortions than homosexuals?! Leave these fucking people alone, for Christ sakes! Here is an entire class of people guaranteed never to have an abortion! And the Catholics and Christians are just tossing them aside! You'd think they'd make natural allies. Go look for consistency in religion. And speaking of my friends the Catholics, when John Cardinal O'Connor of New York and some of these other Cardinals and Bishops have experienced their first pregnancies and their first labor pains and they've raised a couple of children on minimum wage, then I'll be glad to hear what they have to say about abortion. I'm sure it'll be interesting. Enlightening, too. But, in the meantime what they ought to be doing is telling these priests who took a vow of chastity to keep their hands off the altar boys! Keep your hands to yourself, Father! You know? When Jesus said 'Suffer the little children come unto me', that's not what he was talking about!"

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Posted by smitty on 02/21/2012 at 3:48 PM

Boner Pills .... now that's science we can all support, unless of course you're married to the guy.

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Posted by InAtl on 02/21/2012 at 3:50 PM

Random, but...can a brother get a Walking Dead review, Gwynedd?! Sunday's episode was the tits, and needs to be appropriately dissected. Just saying.

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Posted by Mr. A on 02/21/2012 at 3:56 PM

George Carlin was a funny, funny man. I'm sure he's crackin' 'em up in Hell right now. Glad he was never king, though.

Hear, hear, Mr. A. I know Team Shane's more rabid members are about to bust.

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Posted by oydave on 02/21/2012 at 6:17 PM

It's been greater than 4 hours, can someone get me a nurse stat?
(that's what I deserve for erecting a temple to Priapus)

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Posted by Voxpopuli on 02/22/2012 at 2:12 AM

Sign the petition against HB 954: https://www.change.org/petitions/stand-up-…

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Posted by Jaime Chandra on 02/23/2012 at 4:36 PM
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