How About Requiring Rectal Exams for Viagra Prescriptions?

By Sam Favate

In what is shaping up to be the latest chapter in the womens rights movement, female legislators across the country are introducing bills to regulate mens health, in an effort to combat several anti-abortion and anti-contraception laws that have been popping up with increasing regularity.

In Ohio, Nina Turner, a Democrat, introduced a bill that would limit a mans ability to get a Viagra prescription without meeting certain conditions, including psychological counseling and written information from doctors about the potential risks.

Turner said shes been outraged by bills and amendments over the last few years that impact a womans right to contraception and to an abortion, according to the Huffington Post. Turner also cautions that her bill shouldnt be seen as a joke: Im just as serious as a heart attack, she said.

Last month in Oklahoma, State Senator Constance Johnson, a Democrat, introduced an amendment to the so-called personhood bill that would declare it an act against unborn children to waste sperm.

In Illinois, Rep. Kelly Cassidy introduced an amendment to a mandatory ultrasound bill that would require men to watch a graphic video about the side effects of Viagra before being able to get a prescription for it. If theyre serious about us not being able to make our own health care decisions, then Im just as serious about them not being able to make theirs, she said.

In Wilmington, Delaware, the states largest city, the city council passed a resolution earlier this month, calling on the state legislature and U.S. Congress to pass laws granting personhood rights to eggs and sperm. The resolution was written by Loretta Walsh, a councilwoman, as a response to the current battles over health care access for women.

A bill in Virginia sought to require rectal exams and cardiac stress tests for men seeking Viagra, while another in Georgia would limit vasectomies for men.

If all of these legislative moves make a point, its not one that the anti-abortion group Family Research Council appreciates. It sounds like theyre mocking pro-life bills, Jeanne Monahan of the FRC told Huffington.

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How About Requiring Rectal Exams for Viagra Prescriptions?