They're gonna cut your pipis off

Texas state Reps. Marisa Marquez and Naomi Gonzalez, a pair of El Paso Democrats, knew their proposed amendment to a House sonogram bill (HB 15) would not be adopted. Under the bill, women who want to get an abortion will have to take a sonogram a whole day before the abortion, and the doctor will allow the woman to hear the fetus's heartbeat and get an full explanation of the sonogram. But Marquez and Gonzalez, who believe that because men are equally responsible for the pregnancy, said men should undergo a vasectomy. A VA-SEC-TOMY. According to an article in Friday's El Paso Times, the woman would be allowed to seek a court order "mandating a vasectomy on the unmarried man who got her pregnant." The woman, though, would have to agree to not have the abortion, and the man would have had to have "fathered at least two children with different women out of wedlock." And you know who you are, cabrones.
Point taken Rep. Gonzalez and Rep. Marquez, thank you. Even though the proposal was struck down in Republican-led House, it certainly got our beloved legislators talking -- and laughing. Times reporter Zahira Torres described the scene as "rare light-hearted moment." I can just picture them -- the men of Texas -- spilling out of their chairs while slamming their fists on the desk and wiggling their Lucchese boots in the air. State Rep. Sid Miller, a Republican from Stephenville, Texas, even cracked a joke. Leading with constituents' concerns about budget cuts and all the budget cuts being proposed, he told the Times he's, "going to draw the line at this point and say no more cuts." Oh Sid, any way you slice it.

Even though I applaud our state representatives, I have to wonder what would happen if the proposal did pass (I do so as I cover my mid-section and fall into the fetal position). Anyway, it certainly gets us thinking about lawmakers trying to decide what we do with our bodies and our doctors.
On Friday, the House voted in favor of the sonogram bill, a whopping 103-42. And they did so without any of the provisions one would expect. That means women who are victims of rape and incest would have to undergo the sonogram, too. The state Senate's version of the bill exempts women in these cases.