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Banning masturbation will not stop abortion lol
It's a stunt to highlight how we only discuss the woman's role in abortion and how most anti-abortion laws are anti-woman. Was this not clear? Im asking this seriously because so many seem to be missing this here.
It's not clear at all, no.
Is this proposal patently ridiculous? Yes. Do I believe there's at least one legislator in Mississippi who unironically believes in this bill exactly as written, and is playing this completely straight? Considering all that's happened so far, why not?
Satire doesn't work when the obvious hyperbolic nonsense is within actual expected behavior of the satirized.
I won't claim one way or the other that this is or is not satire. I don't know who this legislator is and I don't really care. But no, with the whole article you're pasting everywhere in this thread as my only context clue, I certainly didn't find enough evidence to be convinced he doesn't actually believe this.
Try reading the article then as I only posted the really obvious bit
It's clear it's just stupid