"Ejaculation Responsibility"...something that makes as much sense as "Military Intelligence"

Penis-Americans are famous for thinking with the wrong head. That's unlikely to change, even in South Carolina.

Sister Mary Sunshine urges men to be responsible and stop thinking with the “wrong head.”

Since the Supreme Court ash-canned Roe v. Wade last summer, red states have engaged in a free-for-all to see who can enact the most draconian anti-abortion laws. Frankly, I wouldn’t be surprised to learn that a state’s introducing a bill to outlaw abortion as soon as a woman even thinks about engaging in sexual intercourse.

Life begins when one becomes horny, yes?

CNN — A controversial six-week abortion ban bill is headed to South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster’s desk to be signed into law after the measure cleared the state Senate Tuesday.

The state Senate approved a House-amended version of the bill by a vote of 27-19, after that chamber passed it last week.

Senate Bill 474, known as the “Fetal Heartbeat and Protection from Abortion Act,” would ban most abortions after early cardiac activity can be detected in a fetus or embryo, commonly as early as six weeks into pregnancy, before many women know they are pregnant. Any physician who knowingly violates the law would have their license to practice in the state revoked by the State Board of Medical Examiners and could face felony charges, fines and jail time.

McMaster said on Twitter after the vote that he looks “forward to signing this bill into law as soon as possible.”

The bill includes exceptions to save the patient’s life and for fatal fetal anomalies, as well as limited exceptions up to 12 weeks for victims of rape and incest, with doctor reporting requirements to local law enforcement. It also contains an amendment added by the House that would require a “biological father” to pay child support from the point of conception.

Of course, Republicans being who they are, the responsibility has been placed squarely on women's shoulders. Their anti-abortion philosophy is that men are merely innocent bystanders- sperm donors when all is said and done. Women are the deciders, the jezebels responsible for killing babies.

Because of that indisputable fact (women give birth, after all), no woman should be allowed the “freedom” to decide on her own regarding her reproductive functions. Life is too precious to leave it up to a woman to determine. So the White Conservative Christian heterosexual males (who know little about medicine and even less about reproduction) should make those decisions.

The problem with this approach is that you end up with states like Texas, where women almost have to be on the brink of death before an abortion is allowed. This is because the Lone Star State’s anti-abortion law is so draconian and dismissive of a woman’s health and right to live that it will walk a woman literally to the brink of death before allowing a doctor to walk her back.

And if a woman can’t be brought back from the brink of death? Well, that was God’s will, don’tchaknow?

It remains to be seen whether the measure would survive a court challenge once signed into law. South Carolina passed a similar six week abortion ban in 2021, but the state Supreme Court struck it down earlier this year, concluding that the state constitution’s privacy protections require limits on the procedure to allow women sufficient time to end a pregnancy.

With McMaster’s signature, South Carolina will join a list of Republican-led states that have championed sweeping abortion restrictions in the wake of last year’s Supreme Court ruling overturning Roe v. Wade. But backlash, demonstrated in some instances by electoral evidence, to severe restrictions has created a complicated political landscape in some states, including South Carolina.

Some states, like South Carolina, f’rinstance, are at least trying to hold men minimally accountable for pregnancies, but the laws in the Palmetto State are still intensely draconian and misogynistic. The health and well-being of women are barely a consideration, though the White Conservative Christian heterosexual males in legislatures sell them as attempts to “protect women.”

From what, pray tell?

And some female legislators are beginning to fight back, though proclaiming the need for men to assume “ejaculation responsibility” is virtually guaranteed to fall upon deaf (male) ears.

Men won’t take responsibility because they’ve never had to. A man’s contribution to pregnancy is a momentary grunt and squirt, while a woman is saddled with the responsibility of gestating and giving birth to a child for nine months. If the father isn’t in the picture, the mother will be for at least 18 years.

Women have always borne the brunt of birthing and raising children, primarily because a man could always opt out after making his momentary sperm donation. A man can become a father in a matter of seconds; a woman can and very often will spend a lifetime being a mother. So to say there’s no comparison between the two doesn’t begin to do it justice.

Frankly, most men have been very comfortable with that arrangement. Until the advent of DNA technology, it was easy to duck out on the responsibilities of fatherhood. Even today, it’s far easier to escape fatherhood than motherhood. Then again, most mothers are far more responsible than most fathers…and yes, I realize I’m generalizing, perhaps horribly so.

Calling for “ejaculation responsibility,” while undoubtedly logical and reasonable, flies in the face of the male biological imperative. Few men in the throes of orgasmic release think about the consequences of ejaculating inside a woman’s vagina. Instead, they’re thinking only of that sweet, sweet momentary orgasmic climax.

Not that men shouldn’t be more responsible about where they ejaculate, of course, because we’re capable of it. Too many of my fellow Penis-Americans choose irresponsibility by default.

I did love Planned Parenthood’s response to the South Carolina bill, though it will likely end up being just a finger in the dike:

Shortly after the bill’s passage, Planned Parenthood South Atlantic said on Twitter, “We have just one thing to say to the state of South Carolina: We’ll see you in court.”

We’ll have to see if the courts will be able to enforce some “ejaculation responsibility or whether men’s “money shots” will continue going pretty much wherever they please, free of consequence.

With thousands of years of history as precedent, I think I have a pretty good feeling about how this one will turn out…and I don’t think it’s looking promising for “ejaculation responsibility.”