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    Representative Christopher Rabb plans to introduce legislation that would require all men to get vasectomies within 6 weeks of their third child or 40th birthday. The legislation would also allow people to take civil action against men for unwanted pregnancies and offer a $10,000 reward for reporting men who do not comply. The goal is to address responsibility of men in matters of reproduction and impose laws on men similar to those restricting women's reproductive rights. Rabb argues this could improve public health outcomes and end the gender double standard.

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    Representative Christopher Rabb plans to introduce legislation that would require all men to get vasectomies within 6 weeks of their third child or 40th birthday. The legislation would also allow people to take civil action against men for unwanted pregnancies and offer a $10,000 reward for reporting men who do not comply. The goal is to address responsibility of men in matters of reproduction and impose laws on men similar to those restricting women's reproductive rights. Rabb argues this could improve public health outcomes and end the gender double standard.

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    House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda - PA House of Representatives 10/4/21, 4:10 PM

    Pennsylvania House of Representatives 10/04/2021 03:31 AM


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    House Co-Sponsorship Memoranda

    House of Representatives
    Session of 2021 - 2022 Regular Session
    MEMORANDUM
    Posted: October 2, 2021 03:06 PM
    From: Representative Christopher M. Rabb
    To: All House members
    Subject: Enforcing reproductive responsibility among men

    For far too long, the public debate around abortion, contraception and related reproductive matters has thrust government into the
    center of restrictions on the bodily autonomy of women and girls.

    Rarely is there a meaningful dialogue around public policy focusing on the personal responsibility of cisgender men in this sphere.

    The rights of cisgender men have always been paramount in our society with little focus on their
    responsibility as inseminators to change their behaviors for the good of their partners, families, and society at large.

    As we head toward climax on this heated discourse around this delicate matter, we should come together to address it with
    surgical precision. We must also commit to mending the social fabric being sliced up by bitter acrimony.

    In order to improve public health outcomes and release sweet justice into our households and bedrooms, we must wrap our love of
    individual liberty in the moral imperative of greater personal responsibility and acknowledge men’s essential role in procreation.

    Therefore, I will be introducing legislation that will require all inseminators to undergo vasectomies within 6 weeks from having their
    third child or 40th birthday, whichever comes first.

    Further, this legislation will allow Pennsylvanians to take civil action for unwanted pregnancies against inseminators who
    wrongfully conceive a child with them.

    This legislation will also empower Pennsylvanians to enforce this new law by offering a $10,000 reward for reporting to the proper
    authorities those scofflaws who have not complied with this statute within the allotted timeframe.

    As long as state legislatures continue to restrict the reproductive rights of cis women, trans men and non-binary people, there
    should be laws that address the responsibility of men who impregnate them. Thus, my bill will also codify “wrongful conception” to
    include when a person has demonstrated negligence toward preventing conception during intercourse.

    What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!

    In the spirit of this popular axiom, I encourage my colleagues to take a gander at this forthcoming bill that seeks to end this
    egregiously gendered double standard for the benefit of all individuals, our families and our great commonwealth.

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