[Vision2020] What Goes Around, Comes Around

[deb]

Now we need someone to sponsor a bill that keeps men from getting Viagra unless they have a life threatening medical condition, and not allow insurance companies to pay for it under any circumstances. AND, if they might "die" if they can't perform,  they must have an invasive procedure involving their penis before they can get a prescription from a doctor even if they want to pay for the Viagra....

Let's just see how that flipping flies! Why is it that MEN are the ones pushing legislation that limits a woman's decisions about her own reproductive health? Especially when it's so difficult to get them to even wear a condom "because it reduces their pleasure" and it is up to the woman to provide birth control nearly all the time?? 1955 anyone?

Things that make one go "WTF"...... 
Debi R-S
  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Tom Hansen 
  To: Moscow Vision 2020 
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  Sent: Friday, March 02, 2012 4:58 PM
  Subject: [Vision2020] What Goes Around, Comes Around


  Courtesy of the Riverfront Times (St. Louis, Missouri) at:


  http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/dailyrft/2012/03/representative_stacey_newman_vasectomy_control_legislation.php

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  MO Rep. Stacey Newman Proposes Bill to Restrict Vasectomies



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  Well, well, well. The birth-control debate has finally come to our swimsuit areas, gentlemen. Yesterday Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman (D-St. Louis County) filed HB1853, which would only allow a man to have a vasectomy when doing so would protect him from serious injury or prevent his death.

  Ah, the legislation's on the other set of genitalia now. 
  Rep. Newman -- whom I'd like to nominate for Hero Squad right here and now -- has been frustrated with the recent political debates over birth control access and reproductive health. The legislation is her pointed way of combating the idea that family planning is something only women have to worry about.

  If passed, HB1853 will insure that vasectomies will only be performed in medical facilities licensed by the Department of Health and Senior Services, such as a hospital, ambulatory surgery center or similarly designated health facility. Vasectomies will be legal and safe, and the back-alley ballsnipper that so many indigent men are forced to seek out when they want to get their junk switched off will become a thing of the past. For too long, men have butchered themselves using weed-whackers, small chainsaws and footballs to the groin so that they could no longer father children they didn't want to be a father to. HB1853 will bring us to a more enlightened age.

  Also, it could conceivably cause one of those right-wing bible-fondlers who are so certain that they have the authority to dictate what women can do with their bodies to choke on both indignation and irony. Bitter, bitter irony. 


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  Missouri House Bill 1853


  http://www.house.mo.gov/billtracking/bills121/biltxt/intro/HB1853I.htm

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  Missouri State Representative Stacey Newman (D-St. Louis County)




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  Seeya later, Moscow.

  Tom Hansen
  Post Falls, Idaho

  "If not us, who?
  If not now, when?"

  - Unknown





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