A state legislator in Texas has introduced a bill that would impose a $100 fine on men who masturbate.

Texas House Bill 4260, which has been dubbed "A Man's Right To Know," describes "masturbatory emissions" outside of a woman's vagina or a medical facility as an “act against an unborn child" that makes perpetrators guilty of "failing to preserve the sanctity of life.” If it were to pass into law, the measure would impose strict regulations on all aspects of men's sexual health, from viagra prescriptions and colonoscopies to vasectomies.

Democratic representative Jessica Farrar, who introduced the bill, hopes it makes clear the dangers of policing reproductive health.

"A lot of people find the bill funny," Farrar told the Houston Chronicle. "What's not funny are the obstacles that Texas women face every day, that were placed there by legislatures making it very difficult for them to access health care."

Though the Supreme Court struck down several of the state's most egregious measures last summer, Texas still has the most restrictive abortion laws in the nation: Doctors in the state are required to give patients seeking abortions an illustrated booklet full of inaccurate information linking abortion to suicidal thoughts and breast cancer.

Women must also undergo an ultrasound before any abortion.

The "Man's Right To Know" bill would similarly require men seeking Viagra prescriptions, colonoscopies, or vasectomies, to read an illustrated booklet outlining the risks and benefits of all three. They would then have to wait 24 hours before receiving treatment, and undergo a rectal MRI before either medical procedure.

Farrar included this part of the bill specifically to mirror how "invasive" the state's ultrasound requirement is. "When a woman has to have a trans-vaginal ultrasound, it has nothing to do with her healthcare," she explains. "One of the state's objectives is to guilt her into changing her mind."

Under HB 4260, doctors would also be allowed to refuse to offer sexual health services to men if it violated their "personal, moralistic, or religious beliefs." The state would be required to keep a registry of private organizations and hospitals that would provide "fully-abstinent encouragement counseling, supervising physicians for masturbatory emissions, and storage for the semen" for future conception.

"If the state's going to step in to the arena of women's healthcare," Farrar insists, "lets look to the best practices of the doctors, not bad science, not political agendas and not votes in a Republican primary."