Pennsylvania Lawmaker Proposes Mandatory Vasectomy Bill for Men at 40 or After Third Child

A Democrat in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives wants men to undergo mandatory vasectomies at age 40 or after they’ve had 3 children.

Rep. Christopher Rabb (D-200), writes in a co-sponsorship memo that he’s planning to introduce legislation in Harrisburg soon that would mandate vasectomies for “cisgender men” either when they turn 40 or within 6 weeks of having their third child.

Pennsylvania Male Vasectomy Mandate Proposed

This legislation has absolutely no chance of getting anywhere, if and when it’s introduced. Both the House and Pennsylvania Senate are firmly in Republican control. And as long as far-left legislators keep talking about issues like this, they’ll stay that way for a long time.

Regardless, the attention-deprived Rabb says in his memo, “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.”

He says Pennsylvania needs to address this issue with “surgical precision” and “commit to mending the social fabric being sliced up by bitter acrimony.”

Rabb says by mandating male vasectomies, Pennsylvania would improve public health and “release sweet justice in 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,” Rabb writes. “What’s good for the goose is good for the gander!”

Fine the Inseminators!

In addition to the vasectomy mandate, Rabb also wants to fine “inseminators” for unwanted pregnancies.

Rabb also wants to create a snitch squad who will apparently go around and report cisgender men who’ve violated the vasectomy mandate. His legislation would offer a $10,000 reward for the whistleblowers … but that doesn’t sound like the right term here in more than one way.

“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,” Rabb continues. “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.”

Full Text of Proposed Pennsylvania Vasectomy Bill Memo

Here’s the full text of Rabb’s co-sponsorship memo:

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.