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Here's the rub for any young dipshit republicans that think porn bans are "based". These ghouls all have mistresses on the side and gladly pay for them to get abortions out of sate too.
Conservatives lost the abortion vote in Michigan this is just performative and has no chance
I know it won't pass, I still think its an escalation of rhetoric
Hey wait mom said I couldn’t escalate my rhetoric anymore cause wishing death on slaveowners was too much! Why do they get to escalate their rhetoric and wish death on perfectly innocent people!? This doesn’t seem very fair you know
No argument there
Introduced by Reps. Schriver, Pavlov, Maddock, DeSana, Fox and Wortz
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we should do a total ban on michigan
land back, including literally all of "michigan"
Does getting dressed and walking around count as a real depiction. Because uh.
"Existing while trans" is ultimately what they're going for
They wanna bring back the sodomy laws and the ugly laws
Well if my existence is deemed pornographic I might as well just be in horny mode all the time then I guess 
Yes its proposed, yes it won't pass, yes it would be struck down.
Don't worry, private companies will step in to fill in the gap and will ensure this gets enforced, even if it isn't an actual law! 
or as having a reproductive nature contrary to the individual's biological sex.
mpreg and omegaverse fiction is in danger.
Male pregnancy is a well documented phenomenon dating back thousands of years including in 2nd-century historical texts such as A True Story by Lucian:
Now, what strange novelties worthy of note I observed during the time of my abode there, I will relate unto you. The first is, that they are not begotten of women, but of mankind: for they have no other marriage but of males: the name of women is utterly unknown among them: until they accomplish the age of five and twenty years, they are given in marriage to others: from that time forwards they take others in marriage to themselves: for as soon as the infant is conceived the leg begins to swell, and afterwards when the time of birth is come, they give it a lance and take it out dead: then they lay it abroad with open mouth towards the wind, and so it takes life: and I think thereof the Grecians call it the belly of the leg, because therein they bear their children instead of a belly.
It also occurs in many other species in nature, so it sounds like a skill issue that most of today's men won't do it
maybe they'll stop rutting and fink
Damn they must think we're too hot
People who propose such nonsense bills should face negative consequences.
michigan? shouldn't have miched the first time
brb smuggling flashdrives and sears catalogs
sears catalogs
I found a YouTube link in your comment. Here are links to the same video on alternative frontends that protect your privacy:
Smarter people than myself have pointed out that porn bans often accidentally-on-purpose ban LGBT content as well, but this is a new meta. Like how Nancy Mace was throwing around the T-slur or whoever that based Latina congresswoman was doing in her crossfit campaign ads.
Michigan lawmakers belong in a wood chipper
looking forward to michigan democrats trying to "outflank" them
michigan having most annoying accent and also these people may it burn in hell
is that where they say warder for water?
correct
depiction, description .. written or auditory
Literally the phrase "trans person" would be illegal porn