An Oklahoma state rep proposed an idea for legislation that would make vasectomies mandatory for young men in the state.
Speaking before a floor of legislators, state Rep. Mickey Dollens said on Thursday that he is thinking about introducing the legislation next year.
“I would invite you to co-author a bill that I’m considering next year that would mandate that each male, when they reach puberty, get a mandatory vasectomy that’s only reversible when they reach the point of financial and emotional stability,” he told GOP lawmakers.
“If you think that’s crazy then I think that maybe you understand how 50 percent of Oklahomans feel, as well,” the Democrat said.
Dollens’ remarks were made as the Oklahoma legislature debated HB 4327, a restrictive law that effectively bans abortion from the moment of “fertilization.” The legislature on Thursday passed the bill, and Gov. Kevin Stitt is expected to sign it into law.
If enforced, Oklahoma’s law would be one of the strictest abortion restrictions in the country.
The legislation comes as the Supreme Court weighs overturning Roe v. Wade, the 1973 landmark case that legalized abortion in the United States. Politico earlier this month published a draft Supreme Court opinion signaling a reversal of Roe v. Wade. In the draft, Associate Justice Samuel Alito characterized abortion as “egregiously wrong from the start.”
Abortion will remain legal in the United States until the court hands down a final verdict, which could come as early as June. But the leaked draft opinion was enough to put reproductive rights activists and doctors who perform abortions on high alert.
How about hysterectom ies for all the young women …. except now , of course and thanks to these same type of idiots we’re supposed to recognize what a woman or a man is. Obviously vasectomies and hysterectomies aren’t comparable to abortion except as a deterrent for pregnancy and that very comparison shows the dramatic decision and change invested in such a decision. Of course both the vasectomy and hysterectomy affect only the person involved and not the destruction of another being. But the real question is how are idiots (or snowboard like these getting elected.
I am a female I am of reasonable intelligence,I know how to become pregnant and also how to protect myself from getting pregnant.I have a value on myself.What I don’t understand is how the government has some women that they are so dense that they need to pass laws on how to eliminated a child when there are other thing that can be the result of careless sex. Could it be that it would eliminate the lucrative businesss of selling baby parts? Wake up women we are not stupid,we are being used.
You’re right. Women yelling ” my body , my choice” don’t seem to understand that they had that choice 9 months earlier.
Is ths guy even real, or is this more Media stuff made up. What country does this guy live in? Does he think he is in China. Dollens needs to step down. We do not need people like him in office.
Certain methods of tubal ligation have a very high rate of successful reversibility; Norplant is 100% reversible. Vasectomies do not. Even facetiously, the proposal would result in a near 0% birthrate, not a good idea for the preservation of the species (or at any rate, Oklahomans), which may not be entirely practical. But I have no particular problem with criminalizing and when convicted, executing deadbeat baby daddies (not married to the mother) along with rapists. Bottom line, don’t want a bun in the oven, don’t boink.
That’s the most asinine thing I’ve ever heard! You cannot mandate a man to get a vacectomy as that would make him sterile and unable to father a child, that’s just barbaric! Anyone proposing this has some major screws loose!
I hope that is not a serious effort! Cripes – things that 20 years ago were and had always been throughout human history been considered abhorrent at worst and unbelievable to human beings at best – are now considered “good and even suggested by one prominent pol as – Godly”!
The concept of holding people responsible is good, however this will never fly. We are a free country (supposedly) and this sounds a bit off!!!
This is a great example of the seriously deranged people who have been able to sneak their way into public office. This individual not only does not belong in a position of authority or responsibility, but belongs in a rubber room receiving intense daily therapy.