U.S. Lawmaker In Charge Of Making Laws About Women’s Bodies Thinks Vaginas Are Connected To The Stomach
That's how the female body works, right?
In the midst of a lengthy debate about anti-abortion laws in Idaho on Monday, Republican state representative Vito Barbieri asked a very simple question: could women swallow a pill containing a camera to determine the state of an unborn child?
The laughable question came after three hours of debate around banning medical prescriptions via telemedicine – where the patient’s doctor doesn’t need to be present – including abortion-inducing medicines. One form of telemedicine is the way of conducting colonoscopies that isn’t having a camera fed up your butt (which actually is linked to the stomach) is by, you guessed it, swallowing a pill that contains a tiny camera, allowing the doctor to view the patient’s insides remotely.
By banning telemedicine practices, doctors are essentially forced to be present at all abortions, which makes things difficult for women who are unable to get to a clinic with general practitioners.
Rep. Barbieri’s question was posed to the doctor that was active in the debate, actual female woman Dr. Julie Madsen. There was a slight pause, probably as Dr. Madsen took a moment to process all the unimaginable dumb, and her on-point response — “It cannot be done in pregnancy simply because, when you swallow a pill, it would not end up in the vagina” — evoked laughter from the rest of the room.
So a guy who actually helps to pass laws in real life doesn’t even know how a woman’s body works? Barbieri genuinely thought the stomach and the vagina are attached. This man helps impose on what women can and cannot do with their bodies, and thinks they pee and have babies from the same place. Right. Good.
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If it makes you feel any better, these laws passed the debate and are now up for vote in Idaho’s House of Representatives. Rep. Vito Barbieri lives on to think that babies grow in stomachs, voting for ultrasounds to be conducted before abortions and private health insurance to not provide contraceptive coverage, and probably still hasn’t read Where Do I Come From?
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