Lawmaker Proposes Bill to Restrict Vasectomies Missouri

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The debate over women’s reproductive health is now hitting men right where it counts. A bill that would prevent men from having vasectomies unless it was to avoid serious injury or death was filed in the Missouri House of Representatives this week.

Representative Stacey Newman calls herself a member of the “Silent Seven.” She is one of seven democratic women who stood on the house floor for seven hours last week waiting to speak on the birth control issue.

Those seven women were never allowed to speak, so Newman is now speaking out in her own way.

“A vasectomy shall only be performed to avert the death of the man or avert serious risk,” or so says House Bill 1853 introduced on Wednesday by Newman.

“If it takes government interference in vasectomies for people to wake up and understand the absurdity. The restrictions that we women have to deal with that government keeps interfering in our person private medical decisions then this is what we have to do,” says Newman.

The bill, a statement from seven Democratic women who say they find it absurd that only men’s voices are being heard on the topic of birth control and women.

http://fox4kc.com/2012/03/02/proposed-bill-could-regulate-vasectomies/