If we were to determine an MVP of the 2012 Oklahoma legislative session, the front-runner would have to be State Senator Constance Johnson. The lawmaker from Forrest Park has been doing just about everything in her power to point out the general absurdity, quackery and gender-bias of the controversial Personhood Act and other propsed laws.
First she introduced the “every sperm is sacred” amendment to the Personhood Act, which would have banned depositing semen outside of a woman's vagina. Then she filed an amendment to force convicted rapists to get vasectomies and financially provide for their rape babies.
Now she’s filed yet another one. This amendment is attached to SB1274, which would force a woman to hear the heartbeat of her unborn fetus before she can get an abortion. Because you know, getting an abortion isn't traumatic enough.
In Johnson's amendment, she seeks to ban vasectomies, unless, of course, the vasectomy is intended to “avert the death of the man or avert serious risk of substantial and irreversible physical impairment of a major bodily function of the man.” The full text of the amendment is below. You can view the PDF here:
SECTION 1. NEW LAW