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WOMEN STRIKE BACK AGAINST INVASIVE MEDICAL MANDATES: NEW BILLS REQUIRE INVASIVE PROCEDURES FOR MEN

Richard Kigel · Sunday, March 11th 2012 at 9:48PM · 1085 views
THINK PROGRESS, March 11, 2012 -- An Ohio State Senator is turning the tables on men seeking to regualate women’s access to reproductive health. Sen. Nina Turner (D-Cleveland) has introduced legislation regulating men’s access to erectile dysfunction drugs.

The Dayton Daily News has the details:
"Before getting a prescription for Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs, men would have to see a s*x therapist, receive a cardiac stress test and get a notarized affidavit signed by a s*xual partner affirming impotency, if state Sen. Nina Turner has her way."

The Cleveland Democrat introduced Senate Bill 307 this week.

A critic of efforts to restrict abortion and contraception for women, Turner says she is concerned about men’s reproductive health… Turner said if state policymakers want to legislate women’s health choices through measures such as House Bill 125, known as the ‘Heartbeat bill,’ they should also be able to legislate men’s reproductive health.

Turner’s bill tracks FDA guidelines which recommends doctors determine whether the root cause of men’s s*xual disfunction is physical or psychological. She describes her bill as an effort to “legislate it the same way mostly men say they want to legislate a woman’s womb.”

There have been similar efforts in other states. An Illinois bill would require men to watch a “horrific video” on the side effects of Viagra. In Virginia, Sen. Janet Howell (D) submitted a bill requiring men to undergo a digital rectal exam before recieving a prescription for erectile disfunction drugs.

Conservative commentators such as Sean Hannity have dismissed the comparison, claiming that Viagra — unlike birth control — treats a “medical problem.” Most women, however, use birth control for medical purposes other than family planning.

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ROBINSON IRMA Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM

DEMOCRACY MAKES DISCRIMINATION IN AMERICA 'ILLEGAL' IN ALL 50 STATES AND TERRITORIES. lol!!! (S-M-I-L-E)

ROBINSON IRMA Thursday, April 10th 2014 at 6:47PM

(rotflmao)on how our president is even less qualified to be president now that he is on thecampaign trail talking about , equal pay for the female as themale doing the same jobs. (smile)

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