WTF.
An Ohio state rep., John Adams (R, for Ridiculous), has introduced a bill that would require a woman to get written consent from the man she had sex with to conceive. And if she doesn’t know who the dad is, she has to submit a list of names of men she’s had sex with! Scarlet Letter, here we come.
The bill would make it illegal to lie about who the dad is, and would make abortions without consent a crime. No word on instances of rape and incest, would we need to get a permission slip from daddy then, too?
Listen, I get that a father has a vested interest in seeing his progeny thrive, that’s a man’s most basic evolutionary instinct. But until men have to carry a growing fetus for nine months, sometimes risking their health to do so, and most certainly altering the rest of their lives, until then, the woman has the final say. If she makes the hard decision that abortion is what’s best for everyone, well, sorry boys, you’re going to have to be live with that. Just like she will.
