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Prisoner Asks “Right-to-Life” Fascists—“Why Stop At Fetuses?  Why Not ‘Personhood’ for Sperm Cells Too?” 

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There were a lot of good articles in the recent [newsletter sent by Prisoners Revolutionary Literature Fund with articles from revcom.us]. Speaking on the abortions, how the Supreme Court Judges consider [the idea that] a fetus to have “Personhood rights.”

Like I told somebody here, “If you gonna consider a fetus to have individual rights, then you might as well consider every single sperm cell to have individual rights.” It’s the “strongest swimmer” that makes it to the egg don’t it? So each sperm cell must be unique in its own way. I mean if these fascist fools want to get technical, we can get technical.

They want to police women, why don’t they police men on the monstrous crime of spilling precious life seeds in and on anything. They wanna talk about killing babies. Men destroy the (equivalent) of whole civilizations and universes in what’s considered a “good time.” And I apologize for the imagery, but you get my point ...

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