Bill proposed to regulate masturbation for men
Not only are there very few abortion clinics in Texas, but abortion providers are forced by law to provide medically misleading information about abortion to patients, and patients are required to wait 24 hours between speaking with a health care provider and actually obtaining an abortion under so-called “informed consent” laws.
The bill also would require doctors to administer a digital rectal exam and an MRI before administering a vasectomy, a colonoscopy or prescribing Viagra to men, and would allow doctors to refuse such procedures and medicines on the grounds of the doctor’s religious beliefs. Instead, it was meant to be a satirical bill to raise awareness and highlight just how restrictive the laws governing women’s health truly are. Jessica Farrar’s House Bill 4260, or “A Man’s Right To Know Act”, was intended as a satirical response to a previously passed women’s health law of the same name.
A Texas state representative prompted equal levels of praise and scorn after she introduced “satirical” legislation on Friday that clearly mocks pro-life laws and legislation.
Farrar isn’t the only state-level Democrat using satire to fight back against abortion restrictions introduced by Republican legislatures.
The state must create an informational booklet called “A Man’s Right to Know” that contains information and illustrations on the benefits of and concerns about those three treatments. Opponents say this is an ideological viewpoint that the state shouldn’t impose on women and that it could affect the access to abortion by imposing additional costs on clinics and hospitals.
The lawmaker proposes that the state keep a registry of private hospitals and organizations that counsel men to stay “fully abstinent”, offer physicians to supervise masturbation and store semen for future conception.
House Bill 4260, also known as the Man’s Right to Know Act, creates “a civil penalty for unregulated masturbatory emissions”.
“Her attempt to compare [HB 4260] to the abortion issue shows a lack of a basic understanding of human biology”, Tinderholt said.
After working for Democratic Voice of Burma in Thailand, she ended up in New York City.
Not only does that seem cruel and invasive, it also happens to be completely medically unnecessary, so Farrar made sure to include a similar stipulation in her bill as well: under H.B. “Especially with Trump as president, I think these folks are on fire now”. Comedian Sarah Silverman said sperm cells are alive, and so spraying them anywhere except inside a woman’s vagina is tantamount to killing the unborn.
“It got me thinking, maybe what’s good for the goose is good for the gander”, Farrar told the BBC. “If they can elect someone based on making racist remarks and derogatory remarks toward women and such, then we’ve just given them licence to offend and licence to be even worse than before”.
For the record, her point was lost on at least one of her male colleagues.
Tinderholt went on to suggest that Farrar take a high school biology class.