OH Bill Would Require Men Submit Affidavit From Sex Partner Confirming Impotence Before Receiving Vi

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Ohio Bill Would Require Men Submit Affidavit From Sex Partner Confirming Impotence Before Receiving Viagra

By Judd Legum on Mar 11, 2012 at 5:51 pm


An Ohio State Senator is turning the tables on men seeking to regulate 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 sex therapist, receive a cardiac stress test and get a notarized affidavit signed by a sexual 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 sexual 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.”

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http://thinkprogress.org/health/2012/03/11/442208/affidavit-confirming-impotence-viagra/

[Farmer-Rick]

1. So many bills have been introduced in an attempt to restrict the ladies reproductive health that it

is about time the ladies started hitting back. The bill should also contain language requiring a colonoscopy in order to get the ED meds.

[pampango]

2. Is this where the libertarian teabaggers split with the fundamentalist teabaggers?

It's hard to even follow the "logic" of the far right sometimes.

[HopeHoops]

3. You mean like a Republican voter registration card?