BREAKING! Feminist™ PM Declares "What's Sauce for the Goose. . ."

DAMMIT JANET! has learned that Canada's feminist Prime Minister has taken note that just about nobody is pleased with Health Canada's idiotic rigorous dispensing rules for the so-called abortion pill, Mifegymiso.

From Newfoundland and Labrador, to Prince Edward Island's pharmacists and physicians, to Manitoba and British Columbia, just about everybody who has anything to do with reproductive healthcare is pissed off.

Heck, even the Globe and Mail's editorial writers are miffed.

If this restrictive handling of the abortion pill is meant to reflect safety concerns, it is misguided. Many prescription drugs, used wrongly, have the potential to do harm and yet we trust pharmacists to dispense them, because that is their specialty. Why should Mifegymiso be any different? The damage done by preventing women from obtaining the abortion pill they need will outdo any good that comes from excessive caution about patient safety.

But if these restrictions stem from residual nervousness about easier access to abortion, even in pill form, that is completely wrong. Women have a right to this drug and they should be able to get it without further obstruction.

Among the many objections to the regime are requirements that doctors -- not pharmacists -- maintain an up-to-date supply of the drug, set up billing systems for it, and watch the patient take the first dose.

Responding to criticism that absolutely NO OTHER drug -- not even powerful, potentially lethal chemotherapy drugs -- is treated like this, feminist™ PM Trudeau reportedly said: "All righty then. We'll change the rules on erectile dysfunction drugs like Viagra. Physicians will control dispensing and patients will be required to take the pill in their presence. What's sauce for the goose should be sauce for the gander.

"Happy now?"

Um, no. We are not happy, Justin.



Inspiration from Abortion Rights Coalition of Canada's Facebook page

‪Pudgy Quast‬ Perhaps more people would understand this if men were forced to visit their Doctors to take their viagra pills in the doctor's presence rather the filling their prescriptions at a pharmacy! Women have been dispensing medication to their families forever…I think we can manage to fill a prescription and take a pill ourselves!

Tit-for-Tat in the War on Sex

Mother Jones has a round-up of mocking legislation proposed by US women politicians and their allies to highlight the 'inherent sexism' of the War on Women.

A couple of bills recognize the personhood of eggs and sperm, creating 'egg persons' and 'sperm persons'.

Others propose mandated unnecessary procedures -- like rectal exams, patronizing educational videos, psychological exams, and my fave, an affidavit from a spouse confirming impotence -- for men wanting dick-stiffening drugs.

Others seek to restrict access to vasectomies except for men risking death or serious bodily harm, or to outlaw vasectomies altogether because they leave 'thousands of children . . . deprived of birth'.

I really like the ones requiring that men or the state bear the costs of children born to unwilling women.

Oklahoma: When a zygote-personhood bill came before the state Senate, Sen. Constance Johnson penned an amendment declaring that ejaculating anywhere outside a woman's vagina constitutes "an action against an unborn child." Bonus: Johnson also suggested that any man who impregnates a woman without her permission should pay a $25,000 fine, support the child until age 21, and get a vasectomy, "in the spirit of shared responsibility." In response to the same bill, state Sen. Jim Wilson proposed an amendment requiring the father of an unborn child to be financially responsible for its mother's health care, housing, transportation, and nourishment during pregnancy.

Texas: Contesting a bill mandating sonograms before abortions, Rep. Harold Dutton unsuccessfully offered three amendments in a row. The first would have required the state to pay the college tuition of children born to women who decide against an abortion after seeing a required ultrasound image. The second would have subsidized the children's health care costs until age 18. When that failed, he lowered the age to 6. That didn't fly, either.

You won't be surprised to learn that all these tit-for-tat bills or amendments have failed. But the rectal exam one failed by just two votes.

I'd love to see an avalanche of such legislation.

ADDED: Best one yet from Ohio. Eight humiliating steps men required to go through for Viagra scrip.

Okay, have you stopped laughing yet? I mean, can you imagine men subjecting themselves to a stress test every 90 days, let alone getting a paramour to put in writing that his junk’s busted?

The Ohio state legislature is controlled by Republicans. So, Turner’s bill most likely isn’t going anywhere anytime soon, if at all. Still, it’s brilliant in how it forces us to focus on the absurdity of many of the reproductive health measures littering the legislative landscape by zeroing in Ohio’s heartbeat bill. Asked yesterday by MSNBC's Chris Jansing if she were serious, Turner said she was.

You Want a Scrip for Viagra? Mandatory Rectal Exam!

Pay back!

The state Senate this afternoon gave preliminary approval for legislation that would require pregnant women to undergo ultrasound imaging before an abortion, but not before rejecting a Democratic senator’s attempt to add what she described as “ a little gender equity” to the bill.

Democrat Janet Howell of Fairfax County proposed requiring men to undergo a rectal exam and a cardiac stress test before getting prescriptions for erectile dysfunction drugs such as Viagra.

“This is a matter of basic fairness,” Howell said.

Senate Bill 484 would require a pregnant woman to undergo ultrasound imaging to determine the gestational age of the fetus, and be given an opportunity to view the ultrasound image, before having an abortion. The proposed law also requires the abortion provider to keep a printed copy of the ultrasound image in the patient’s file.

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She said she was watching television in her hotel room that evening and saw an ad for an erectile dysfunction drug that included a recitation of “all the serious things that could happen to a man who was going to take this medication.”

“So, I said, it’s only fair, that if we’re going to subject women to unnecessary procedures, and we’re going to subject doctors to having to do things that they don’t think is medically advisory, well, Mr. President, I think we should just have a little gender equity here,” Howell said, explaining her amendment.

Every time another bullshit pre-abortion mandatory procedure law comes up, women in whatever legislature should propose this.



h/t I Am Dr. Tiller

Is that a hidden agenda in your pocket Stevie

or are you just happy to be campaigning?

So the élection érection is out of the pants bag. It sounded bizarre when the word slipped out during Harper's press conference on Saturday but I assumed my hearing was off and I needed more coffee.

As it turns out, this isn't the first time Stevie has said érection instead of élection.

Now, what does that say about bilingual members working for the PMO politburo that they're all too scared stiff to tell the boss he keeps getting his French *l* & *r* mixed up?

Lusting after a majority is Viagra to Harper? That's hardly a surprise. But since we're rubbing up to the edge of vulgarity here - what the hell, let's go all the way. One could blame it on Dan Gardner since he wrote "Stephen Harper is Richard Nixon on a bad day." back in 2008.

Stevie Peevie. Tricky Dicky.

Don't Switch Dicks in the Middle of a Screw, Vote Nixon in '72

Harper desperately desires a majority. His strategy so far is to warn Canadians they shouldn't switch, that they should stick with the one who'll provide them with a steady and stable ride economy. WTF? Is that some weird subliminal tactic, an attempt to seduce undecided female voters?

In what other weird, frantic, unattractive ways is Harper like Nixon?

Is that a gun in your pocket or

did you just catch a whiff of past-their-freshness-date eggs?

A malodorous gas behind the smell of rotting eggs has been found to play a key role in giving men erections. ...

A study has shown that, prior to sexual intercourse, minute quantities of hydrogen sulphide are released within the key nerve cells of the penis which control the engorgement of the male organ with blood to stiffen it.

Scientists believe that the discovery could lead to the development of a new class of drugs to combat erectile dysfunction by affecting a different biochemical pathway to the one targeted by Viagra.

So, the smell of sulphur makes some men hawt. That goes a long way towards explaining the the .... ah, fervour that many priests and male preachers in fundamentalist religions exhibit when launching into rants about the torments of Hell.