The senator who made the initiative does not believe in the initiative, and it is not even his purpose.
In the United States in the state of Mississippi Bradford Blackmon has made a bill that, with a few exceptions, prohibits masturbation from men.
According to the legal text, “it would be illegal to trigger genetic material without purpose to fertilize the egg.”
Breaking the law would lead to a fine: the first time $ 1,000, the second time $ 5,000 and a third time for $ 10,000.
The name of the legal initiative is ”Prevention begins with erection“. Its text presents two exceptions to criminalization.
Masturbation would be legal if the sperm is to be handed over for fertilization of the egg when using a sperm bank or contraceptive.
The initiator does not seek the lead of the law
The bill is a protest. Its author Bradford Blackmon is a lawyer and senator in the Senate of the Mississipp State. He does not believe in the transit of the law, and it is not even his goal.
To the local To the NBC channel TV station In his statement, Blackmon suggests that the law is a statement on the desire of legislators to regulate and limit women’s bodily self -determination.
“Throughout the country, especially here in the Mississippi, the overwhelming share of prevention and abortion laws focuses on the role of a woman, even though men are the other side of the equation,” Blackmon writes.
The overwhelming share of prevention and abortion laws focuses on the role of a woman, even though men are the other side of the equation.
Bradford Blackmon, State Senator, Dem.
According to Blackmon, the legal initiative brings the role of a man to the debate.
“I will try to clarify when the government is appropriate to dictate what each one does privately in their own home,” says Blackmon For Newsweek.
In Mississippi, abortion has been illegal since 2022, when the US Supreme Court overturned the Wade decision against Roe, which enacted the abortion right.
The US general atmosphere is believed to become more conservative to president Donald Trump in the second season.
In order for the law to enter into force on the day of July 1, the state Senate and the House of Representatives should be approved. In practice, it is certain that the initiative will not pass Mississipp’s Republican -majority legislative bodies.