Bradford Jerome Blackmon (born December 21, 1988) is an American attorney and Democratic Party politician from Mississippi. A son of state representative Edward Blackmon Jr. and state senator Barbara Blackmon, he was elected in 2023 to succeed his mother in the

Mississippi State Senate The Mississippi State Senate is the upper house of the Mississippi Legislature, the State legislature (United States), state legislature of the U.S. state of Mississippi. The Senate, along with the Lower house, lower Mississippi House of Represen ...

. On January 20, 2025, Blackmon introduced the

Contraception Begins at Erection Act Contraception Begins at Erection Act is a 2025 Mississippi bill proposed by Mississippi State Senator Bradford Blackmon that would make it unlawful for a person to "discharge genetic material without the intent to fertilize an embryo." The propos ...

. The bill would make it illegal for a man to discharge " genetic materials" (semen) without the intent to fertilize an

embryo An embryo ( ) is the initial stage of development for a multicellular organism. In organisms that reproduce sexually, embryonic development is the part of the life cycle that begins just after fertilization of the female egg cell by the male sp ...

. According to Blackmon, the intent of the legislation is to bring the fundamental role of men into the contraception conversation in response to the large volume of legislative activity targeted only at women.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Blackmon, Bradford Living people 1988 births Democratic Party Mississippi state senators 21st-century members of the Mississippi Legislature Mississippi lawyers People from Canton, Mississippi University of Mississippi School of Law alumni University of Pennsylvania alumni 21st-century American lawyers 21st-century African-American politicians