Jackson, MS - Mississippi governor Tate Reeves has signed controversial legislation this week that either bans or clarifies the legality of using prenatal corporal punishment on a developing fetus.
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| A photo of a Mississippi fetus receiving either a good spanking or intrauterine spina bifida surgery |
"This law either establishes that caregivers who participate in intrauterine corporal punishment will face severe penalties for violating the sanctity of human life in the womb or that they are well within their God-given rights to choose how to parent a child that's actin' up," Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch explained. "You can decide which one feels right for yourself, but honestly they both make sense if you think about it for a minute."
Corporal punishment is the deliberate infliction of physical pain as a response to undesired behaviors, and typically involves spanking or paddling in the case of a child at home or in a school setting. According to historian Grumb Waitstaff, the entirety of the state's history since admission to the Union in 1817 could be used to explain their government being either for or against intrauterine corporal punishment. "Whether it's their fixation on designating the unborn fetus as a person with full constitutional rights at any gestational age or their apparent love of using physical pain to correct behaviors perceived as bad or inappropriate, it really could go either way with those assholes. So you get to pick."
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