You read about the proposed Mississippi legislation dubbed the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act.”

This proposal sought to make it a crime in Mississippi “for a person to discharge genetic materials without the intent to fertilize an embryo”

The penalties were monetary fines…

Blackmon stated that his Bill was intended to bring attention towards, “…the vast majority of bills relating to contraception and/or abortion focus on the woman’s role when men are fifty percent of the equation. This bill highlights that fact and brings the man’s role into the conversation. People can get up in arms and call it absurd but I can’t say that bothers me.”

While this Bill went limp in committee in Mississippi it saw a second round of life as it was recently brought up in Ohio!

Anita Somani, Ohio State Representative, an OB/GYN, admits she knows how ludicrous her bill sounds. The “Conception Begins at Erection” Act seeks to make it a crime for a man to ejaculate without the intention of reproducing.

Somani reports “It’s gotten more attention than any other bill I’ve introduced since becoming a state representative.‘ Her rationale is to finally address “the inequity in reproductive bills, most of which have targeted women and their health care providers.”

The scuttlebutt on the street is that Somani’s Bill, akin to its Mississippi cousin, will be a failure to launch.

Matthew Thompson is a family law attorney in Mississippi and supports procreation!