This story was originally published by The HuffPost and appears here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. In 1999, Scott Pruitt, then an Oklahoma state senator, introduced a bill to grant men “property rights” over unborn fetuses, requiring women to obtain the would-be father’s permission before aborting a pregnancy. Pruitt, now the embattled administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, submitted the legislation again in 2005. The bill, which did not pass either time, faded from Pruitt’s political legacy.