Wilmington City Council Passes Resolution Urging 'Personhood' Rights For Sperm

[MindMover]

The Wilmington City Council has a message for men -- sperm are people, too.

The council for Delaware's largest city passed a resolution by an 8-4 vote Thursday calling on the Delaware legislature, other state legislatures and the U.S. Congress to pass laws granting "personhood" rights to eggs and sperm. The resolution was authored by councilwoman Loretta Walsh as a protest in the current battle over women's health care access.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/02/wilmington-city-council-sperm-egg-personhood_n_1316924.html

So basically, every teenage boy with surging hormones and a Playboy is a mass murderer, and spring break in Key West is the holocaust.

[arcane1]

1. Love it! :D

to councilwoman Loretta Walsh

[wandy]

2. It would be just WRONG if someone didn't post this!

[MindMover]

4. Thanks for your contribution.....

[Walk away]

7. If I wasn't such a die hard Atheist I would have to convert after that!

Amen!

[dickthegrouch]

9. Faaaaaaabulous!

I can't even imagine that being filmed in the "good old USofA" with actual children. Far less being broadcast on State sponsored national TV (BBC).

I don't remember ever seeing that skit - Thank you so much.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

15. It's from the Monty Python movie The Meaning of Life. Not a skit on TV.

[kentauros]

3. I only hope that enterprising people will twist this against them.

For example, if all of a man's sperm on any given day (read around here that it's estimated to be roughly 35 million), then on his write-in ballot he can add that 35,000,000 in votes to his own. If the city balks at that, take them to court for full definition of a "person". Tie up their stupid law over all the absurdities it covers until they back down.

[tblue37]

8. No, because there is an age requirement for voting.

No one under the age of 18 has a right to vote, and all those sperm are minors! (They can't have a beer, either, but even if they were 18 they wouldn't be able to.)

[kentauros]

12. So, is there an age-requirement for corporations voting?

They're people, too!

And saying they must be "18", means I can say that because they are 18-seconds old, then they are "of legal age"

[meow2u3]

10. The sperm are too young to vote

[kentauros]

13. But, they're old enough to impregnate an egg?

Old enough to "die for their cause"?

[Lex]

5. So . . . this is NOT an article from The Onion?

Whoa.

[arcane1]

6. Key Words: "a protest in the current battle over women's health care access"

[mmonk]

11. For eggs too?

There goes breakfast.

I'm trying to figure out how a sperm can grow into an adult human being. The same also for an unfertilized egg. Can someone show me the biology book where that is shown? Or is it the City Council never had health or biology classes?

[kentauros]

14. It's all done with T-cells and genetically-engineered mice.

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