Because popping a pill and having a device up your uterus to suck out a baby is soooo similar.
Mary Lou Marzian
Via Fox News: A Kentucky lawmaker has put forward a bill that would require men to visit a doctor at least twice and obtain a signed permission slip from their wives before they could obtain a prescription for the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra.State Rep. Mary Lou Marzian, a Democrat, acknowledged to the Louisville Courier-Journal that the bill has no chance of passing. However, she said the bill was a response to several anti-abortion measures, including a recently ratified law that requires a woman seeking an abortion to get counseling at least 24 hours in advance from a health professional.
In an opinion piece, Marzian said her bill is meant to “illustrate the absurdity of government encroachment into women’s personal and medical decisions currently running amok in the Kentucky General Assembly and [Gov. Matt] Bevin administration.”
Marzian goes on a rant in her opinion piece. Excerpts include:
“…anti-abortion bills…place extreme hardship and emotional stress upon women and strips them of their rights to make choices about their health, future, and well being.”
“…these efforts are being perpetrated upon Kentucky women by white men, under the guise of religious rants and false facts, but in reality their crusade is for political gain and re-election purposes.”
Marzian’s bill specifies that only married men can obtain Viagra and a prospective patient must “make a sworn statement with his hand on a Bible that he will only use a prescription for a drug for erectile dysfunction when having sexual relations with his current spouse.”
Other state lawmakers have filed similar bills to make political points. In 2012, a bill from an Ohio state senator required men to get a psychological evaluation before getting a Viagra prescription and last year a South Carolina state representative filed a bill that would require men to wait 24 hours before getting a prescription.
Marzian has also said she would file a bill requiring potential gun buyers to undergo counseling from victims of gun violence 24 hours in advance of the purchase.
DCG