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Alabama Lawmaker Proposes Mandatory Vasectomies For Men Turning Fifty. Ted Cruz Responds.

Eric Quintanar
Alabama Lawmaker Proposes Mandatory Vasectomies For Men Turning Fifty. Ted Cruz Responds.
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Alabama lawmaker Rollanda Hollis (D-AL) proposed a law in the state legislature earlier this month that would require all men to celebrate their 50th birthday with a mandatory vasectomy and pay for it themselves. 

“Under existing law, there are no restrictions on the reproductive rights of men,” says Hollis in the text of the bill. “This bill would require a man to undergo a vasectomy within one month of his 50th birthday or the birth of his third biological child, whichever comes first.”

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