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Missouri Legislators Introduce Satirical Bill To Restrict Vasectomies | After the Missouri House approved a resolution decrying the Obama administration’s mandate that health insurance policies include contraception, nine female legislators sponsored a bill to limit vasectomies. The measure says that a vasectomy would only be performed “to avert the death of a man or avert serious risk of…physical impairment,” and that no regard would be given to the man’s desire to father children. “If we are going to seriously restrict access to birth control used by over 98 percent of Missouri women and widely used since 1960, then it’s only fair we legislate men’s access as well,” said state Rep. Stacey Newman (D), one of the bill’s sponsors.