Sperm Are People Too!

**Acturus** · 2012-03-05 10:01

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/0...ef=mostpopular

*****

The Wilmington City Council has a message for men -- sperm are people, too.

The council for Delaware's largest city passed a resolution by an 8-4 vote Thursday calling on the Delaware legislature, other state legislatures and the U.S. Congress to pass laws granting "personhood" rights to eggs and sperm. The resolution was authored by councilwoman Loretta Walsh as a protest in the current battle over women's health care access.

"[E]ach 'egg person' and each 'sperm person' should be deemed equal in the eyes of the government and be subject to the same laws and regulations as any other dependent minor and be protected against abuse, neglect or abandonment by the parent or guardian," says the resolution. "[L]aws should be enacted by all legislative bodies in the United States to promote equal representation, and should potentially include laws in defense of 'personhood,' forbidding every man from destroying his semen."

The vote came the same day that the U.S. Senate voted down an amendment that would have given employers the right to refuse any health care service to employees for moral reasons.

Walsh isn't the first lawmaker to introduce such a measure. Sen. Constance Johnson, a Democratic state senator from Oklahoma, introduced and later withdrew an amendment to a "personhood" bill that would have given zygotes the same rights as adults. "However, 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," reads the amendment.

Other legislators have lodged similar protests. As the Virginia legislature considered a bill requiring women to undergo mandatory ultrasounds before abortions, state Sen. Janet Howell put forth an amendment mandating that men get a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test prior to being treated for erectile dysfunction. (The mandatory ultrasound bill has since passed the state Senate and the governor is expected to sign, albeit no longer requiring an invasive transvaginal ultrasound.) Georgia state Rep. Yasmin Neal introduced a bill vastly limiting vasectomies for men as a protest against an abortion bill in her state.

"What's good for the gander is good for the goose," said Walsh, according to The News Journal.

*****

Love it. If there was any doubt about shark jumping before, we've definitely Fonzie'd at this point.

Also, release the sperm people!

**Qalbert** · 2012-03-05 10:03

In related news, Wilmington now has the highest murder rate in the United States.

**Lucavi** · 2012-03-05 10:04

If this is true and my seed are all little people already, then I may be the biggest mass-murder in history. Huh. Feels kinda good to be a criminal, especially at the point of the crime happening.

**Enedin** · 2012-03-05 10:11

Originally Posted by Acturus

forbidding every man from destroying his semen

They'd rather have a country of horny guys walking around?

http://images.cheezburger.com/comple...d67ee7b478.jpg

**Guitarman** · 2012-03-05 10:13

I'm a serial killer now, score. It'll look great on my resume.

**Siatdiat** · 2012-03-05 10:14

So... if I jerk off in a cup, and freeze it.... would I be fulfilling my role of taking care of my childrens?

**Souj** · 2012-03-05 10:23

you know, the one thing I never understood when it comes to this sort of thing.
even when you cum inside a girl in hope of getting her pregnant, 99.999% of sperm die. No one seems to care about those sperm!
Billions upon billions of sperm are killed everyday when they are forced to partake in the most dangerous race known to man! Thousands partake in the race and they must fight against themselves and their surroundings and in the end, of those thousands, only one will remain. The rest will be killed off! Sounds like an awesome book.
Or there might not even be any winners. chance of pregnancy isn't 100%.

**Lucavi** · 2012-03-05 10:24

So we're all killers, even if we impregnate a woman.

Clearly the only solution is abstinence from birth.

Wait, that won't work either. When a guy has a wet dream as a teen, he'll be a murderer.

Clearly, the only solution is to remove the testes of all men at birth. There we go. No more murder.

**Kurokikaze** · 2012-03-05 10:26

Holy shit... I've never thought I would commit a murder and it turns out I've been a mass murderer for years. I even killed some people earlier.

**Hyan** · 2012-03-05 10:35

great, i am still innocent

MaachaQ · 2012-03-05 10:35

**Siatdiat** · 2012-03-05 10:37

Anyone else notice that Wyoming tried to pass some other fucked up shit lately on the state level, from the other thread about the anti-protest bill? Definitely will remember to never have anything to do with that shitty state.

On another note, does this mean sodomy charges can be bumped up to canibalism now?

Edit: I woke up at 3am to go to work and just got home... must be out of it a bit, somehow confused wilmington city with wyoming.

**Byrthnoth** · 2012-03-05 10:41

Fucking Delaware.

It's those damned southerners!

**Siniroth** · 2012-03-05 10:42

One day. One day I will wake up and cease being surprised by these kinds of events.

**ronin sparthos** · 2012-03-05 10:52

The only way to combat this is to have a protest in which groups of men publicly masturbate in defiance.

It'll be like the Boston Tea Party.

**Indalecia** · 2012-03-05 10:59

Originally Posted by Souj

you know, the one thing I never understood when it comes to this sort of thing.
even when you cum inside a girl in hope of getting her pregnant, 99.999% of sperm die. No one seems to care about those sperm!
Billions upon billions of sperm are killed everyday when they are forced to partake in the most dangerous race known to man! Thousands partake in the race and they must fight against themselves and their surroundings and in the end, of those thousands, only one will remain. The rest will be killed off! Sounds like an awesome book.
Or there might not even be any winners. chance of pregnancy isn't 100%.

And now you know where the japanese got NINJA WARRIOR.

**Gwynplaine** · 2012-03-05 11:14

I had to Google this story to see if it was real. Sure enough.

Well this is the logical conclusion of the "Personhood" line of religious thinking. If a fertilized egg, a zygote, is a "person", then so are potentially any human cells. It totally blurs and confuses things that are "alive" such as cells, and what is a single individual real person. An actual baby who has been given birth to is a person, anything else IN THE TERMS OF LAW should properly not be. It only serves to accomplish their religious world view that sex is dirty and fallen. People should not have sex for pleasure and must carry the duty of giving birth no matter what in spite of the mother's wishes for her own body. You don't own your body, God does, and you better do your duty to fulfill His will.

It's easy to laugh at these politicians but that is the reality of what they want to make real unless their seriously opposed.

**Dimmauk** · 2012-03-05 11:14

Bukaki = Holocaust?

**ronin sparthos** · 2012-03-05 11:29

From what I'm reading this is meant to be protest legislation and an attempt to show men how invasive, unfair and annoying legislation regarding contraception has been towards women.

**Siatdiat** · 2012-03-05 11:31

Originally Posted by ronin sparthos

From what I'm reading this is meant to be protest legislation and an attempt to show men how invasive, unfair and annoying legislation regarding contraception has been towards women.

Yeah... I have been looking elsewhere to read about this and found out exactly the same thing. Collective woosh?

Another from OK.

http://readersupportednews.org/opini...ersonhood-bill

Thread: Sperm Are People Too!

Thread Tools

Sperm Are People Too!

Latest Threads

Up & Coming Threads

Hottest Threads