{"id":1486957,"date":"2022-05-21T16:16:18","date_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:16:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486957"},"modified":"2022-05-21T16:16:36","modified_gmt":"2022-05-21T20:16:36","slug":"democratic-oklahoma-state-rep-floats-mandatory-vasectomies-for-young-men-after-legislature-passes-abortion-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democratic-oklahoma-state-rep-floats-mandatory-vasectomies-for-young-men-after-legislature-passes-abortion-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic Oklahoma State Rep. Floats Mandatory Vasectomies For Young Men After Legislature Passes Abortion Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdemocratic-oklahoma-state-rep-floats-mandatory-vasectomies-for-young-men-after-legislature-passes-abortion-ban%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1486957&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dw-wp-production.imgix.net\/2022\/05\/75257DFB-F97A-4E9A-B670-F645FCC7F60D-scaled.jpeg?w=1200&#038;h=800&#038;ixlib=react-9.3.0\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Democratic State legislator in Oklahoma suggested that men should get mandatory vasectomies, in response to another bill banning abortion from the moment of conception.<\/p>\n<p>At a meeting of the Oklahoma state legislature Friday, Democratic Rep. Mickey Dollens suggested that members of the legislature who supported the abortion law, House Bill 4327, should consider another bill he planned to introduce, which would mandate that young men in the state receive a vasectomy once they reach puberty that could only be reversed when they are \u201cdeemed financially and emotionally responsible.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dollens initially made the suggestion on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MickeyDollens\/status\/1527029543818694657?s=20&#038;t=Zcok2UWsWJJQK06Z63jW0w\">Twitter<\/a> Thursday in a thread attacking HB 4327. \u201cOne of my fellow legislators plans to introduce a bill, HB 4327, that would define life as the moment of fertilization, making it a homicide to abort even a small cluster of cells,\u201d Dollens wrote. \u201cWhat if we take it further and mandate that every male has to have a vasectomy until they are deemed financially and emotionally responsible? Or call the use of condoms premeditated murder? Using a personal interpretation of religion to legislate human bodies is wrong and leads us down a dangerous path.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dollens brought up the idea again during debate on HB 4327 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mediaite.com\/politics\/oklahoma-democrat-suggests-mandatory-vasectomies-in-response-to-restrictive-abortion-law\/\">Friday<\/a>. \u201cI would invite you to co-author a bill that I\u2019m considering next year that would mandate that each male when they reach puberty get a mandatory vasectomy that\u2019s only reversible when they reach the point of financial and emotional stability,\u201d he told colleagues. \u201cIf you think that\u2019s crazy, then I think that maybe you understand how 50 percent of Oklahomans feel as well.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dollens also attacked Republicans for not bringing up Democratic priorities. \u201cThere are plenty of actual solutions that can make a difference in reducing unwanted pregnancies,\u201d he said. \u201cBirth control, family planning, sex education, livable wage. But no. Each year, the past six years I\u2019ve been here, and for years and years before that, they have gone unaddressed.\u201d Dollens also accused Republicans in the legislature of trying to score political points.<\/p>\n<p>The Oklahoma State Legislature passed HB 4327 on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oklahoma-passes-ban-on-almost-all-abortions-starting-at-conception\">Thursday<\/a>, as The Daily Wire reported. The bill was approved by a vote of 73-16, after it was approved by the state Senate in April. It outlaws nearly all abortions from the moment of fertilization, which it defines as \u201cthe fusion of a human spermatozoon with a human ovum.\u201d It includes limited exceptions that allow abortions to save the life of the mother \u201cin a medical emergency\u201d or if the pregnancy resulted from an incident of \u201crape, sexual assault, or incest that has been reported to law enforcement.\u201d The bill also provides a definition for an unborn child as \u201ca human fetus or embryo in any stage of gestation from fertilization until birth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HB 4327 is an extension of Oklahoma Senate Bill 1503, a.k.a the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oklahoma-governor-signs-texas-style-abortion-ban-into-law\">Oklahoma Heartbeat Act<\/a>, which Governor Kevin Stitt signed into law earlier this month. SB 1503 is a Texas-style abortion ban, which means it is enforced by civil action brought by private individuals against abortion providers instead of being prosecuted as a criminal offense. HB 4327 uses the same enforcement mechanism of private lawsuits, but it outlaws abortion at any point instead of just 6 weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Oklahoma also passed a law in April making performing an abortion a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/oklahoma-makes-it-a-felony-to-perform-an-abortion\">felony<\/a>, with the expectation that the Supreme Court\u2019s ruling in\u00a0<em>Dobbs v. Jackson Women\u2019s Health Organization\u00a0<\/em>would strike down\u00a0<em>Roe v. Wade\u00a0<\/em>and return abortion policymaking to the states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Democratic State legislator in Oklahoma suggested that men should get mandatory vasectomies, in response to another bill banning abortion from the moment of conception.At a meeting of the Oklahoma<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":189,"featured_media":1486963,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1486957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/189"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1486957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1486957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1486963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1486957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1486957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1486957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}