Ohio Lawmaker Introduces Bill Regulating Men's Access to Viagra

Andrew Jones
The Raw Story
Mon, 12 Mar 2012 08:12 UTC

US - An Ohio state senior is using her frustration with state-level pushes to restrict women's access to reproductive health services, such as limiting coverage in their insurance plans, to flip the script with a new bill that would require men to take certain steps before obtaining a prescription to Viagra.

According to The Dayton Daily News, State Sen. Nina Turner introduced a bill last week that would force any male to undergo sex therapy, receive a cardiac stress test and get a notarized affidavit signed by a sexual partner affirming impotency in order to get a prescription for any erectile dysfunction drug.

Turner's bill was a direct response to the "Heartbeat bill" introduced in the Ohio House by Republican Lynn Wachtmann, which would prohibit abortion once a heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.

"If we are going to be in the business as policy makers of regulating sexual health or medical health, then we should do it across the board," Turner told Bloomberg News. "We should be equal opportunity in that."

Turner expressed how her bill adheres to already existing federal guidelines.

"Even the FDA recommends that doctors make sure that assessments are taken that target the nature of the symptoms, whether it's physical or psychological," she said. "I certainly want to stand up for men's health and take this seriously and legislate it the same way mostly men say they want to legislate a woman's womb."

Reader Comments

Moe Howard · 2012-03-12T20:35:47Z

I'm with her, but most likely not

the government has no business in the matter at all, I don't want to pay for viagra, and I don't want to pay for STDs and I don't want to pay for BC, or giving birth, a cost that these lesbians never, never, never talk about. That is reproduction. She is talking about destruction rights, a woman's right to destroy. I have no problem - kill all your fetuses, but please, do it on your own dime, not mine.

Moe Howard · 2012-03-12T20:37:50Z

I thought I would never see

an uglier so-called woman as Meechelle obama, but along comes this monster, a walking, talking example of why abortion should be encouraged, we certainly don't want her to reproduce.

shellycheval · 2012-03-13T06:26:45Z

OK Rush, and your unwillingness to focus on the topic and rather create an irrational, ad hominem attack is evidence of precisely the kind of speech described in the previous article, "Corrupted and Evasive Language Now a Core Template of Our Social Behaviors," and your agenda to always be first on the scene with an inane, and often hostile reply to whatever the topic has become rather tiresome and would probably get you banned if it were not so easy to see through your motives.

ironjam628 · 2012-03-13T08:48:13Z

Yet another ignornant comment with racial undertones that I don't need this morning. Can't you go troll on Yahoo, where people like you proliferate like fleas?

TSU1007 ·

+1!!

· 2012-03-13T10:25:24Z

gdpetti · 2012-03-13T16:03:06Z

Finally

At least Comedy Central's host mentioned this a few days ago as well. It is funny to hear a room full of men discussing these "women's" issues, as if they know anything about them, but then in our bizarroworld, they do the same for every other issue, like the economy, wars, financial 'reform', etc.

Another case of "do as I say, not as I do". The catalyst should continue to pick up pace until the end, which is a trouble point for the STS crew as they well know the danger of allowing the energy flow to go from fear to anger. The next step up is pride and then neutrality is reached and the top of the pyramid can't allow the bottom to move in on their action. As above, so below, and so it goes.