The bill, dubbed the “Contraception Begins at Erection Act,” was introduced by state Sen. Bradford Blackmon on Monday. For those convicted of violating the law, financial penalties will be ...

FILE-Protesters (L) gather outside the Mississippi State Capitol building during the state legislature's historic vote to change the Mississippi flag in Jackson, Mississippi on June 28, 2020.

Mississippi state Sen. Bradford Blackmon, a Democrat, introduced a bill that would seemingly ban men from masturbating or other sexual acts that are not performed for "the intent to fertilize an ...

Mississippi Senator Bradford Blackmon introduced the Contraception Begins at Erection Act. The legislation would make it unlawful for a person to "discharge genetic material without the intent to ...

Mississippi state Sen. Bradford Blackmon, ... By mid-2024, eight states had enacted or proposed restrictions on women's access to contraception, according to the Guttmacher Institute, ...