FEMALE GENITALIA, VULVA, CLITORIS, VESTIBULE, GLANDS, UTERUS, FUNDUS, CERVIX, GONADS (oh, yes women do), OVARIES, FOLLICLE, ENDOCRINE CELLS, FALLOPIAN TUBES, BARTHOLIN GLANDS and VAGINA.
Are all of these "dirty words" that cannot be said on the "House Floor?" Please be more specific, because my doctor is using these words and I might have to report him to the medical ethics board.
What is wrong with you? Are you ignorant? Crazy? Mean? Unintelligent? Or, trying to score points with the ignorant, crazy, mean, and unintelligent?
VAGINA is a medical term. VAGINA is in the dictionary. VAGINAE are a part of female anatomy--a part of women's bodies just as are the nose, eyes, toes, and knees. Just as the penis or the ear is a part of a man's body.
"What she said was offensive," Rep. Mike Callton (R-Nashville) said. "It was so offensive, I don't even want to say it in front of women. I would not say that in mixed company."
"My concern was the decorum of the House, not of anything she said," said Majority Floor Leader Jim Stamas (R-Midland). "I ask all members to maintain a decorum of the House, and I felt it went too far yesterday."
Those were your replies to Michigan State Representative Lisa Brown using the word "vagina" on the house floor while speaking out against an anti-abortion bill. My dear gentlemen, if the word VAGINA isn't appropriate then, when is it?
Am I to understand that the words "rape," "incest," and "anti-abortion" do not offend you but the word VAGINA does? This is wrong. Where is the decorum in anti-abortion, rape and incest?
It is wrong that men are making laws governing women's bodies.
It is wrong that ignorant men are making laws governing women's bodies. I will hazard a guess that not 10% of anti-health care for women, anti-choice, anti-Planned Parenthood, anti-contraception, anti-Plan B, etc. etc. etc. lawmakers know what a blastocyst is or could define 10% of these terms: http://quizlet.com/907671/medical-terminology-chapter-14-the-reproductive-systems-flash-cards/
It is wrong that some citizens of the United States are being required to follow the religious beliefs of other citizens. Lawmakers should practice their religion and not legislate it. Abortion and all issues related to female reproductive care are no exception.
It is wrong that men who do not know the difference between dirty words and medical terminology are making laws governing women's bodies.
It is wrong that men whose only association to female anatomy seems to be sexual are allowed to pass legislation regulating female health care.
It is frightening that a male lawmaker finds a descriptive medical term for a woman's female genitalia offensive and as a psychiatric social worker (retired) I believe that this renders him incompetent to vote on these issue.
The inability to use descriptive neutral language by anyone would indicate significant repression and denial that might interfere with theie ability to deal with important social issues. Ex: "The poor don't really suffer." "Rape and incest are so infrequent they don't really matter." "The reproductive organs of women are not something to be discussed in polite society and... therefore are not deserving of health care."
If lawmakers are so repressed that they are unable to use medical terminology, how can penile cancer, ovarian cancer, VAGINAL CANER, etc. and insurance coverage, Medicare, MA, rape, incest and other issues be discussed and problems solved for the sake of our communities and country?
Gentlemen, did you know that the VAGINA isn't just an empty space for a penis or a baby. It is a body organ, a muscular tube extending from the cervix to the opening of the body. Did you know that women get VAGINAL CANCER? Did you know that some times women have to have their VAGINAE removed?
How have we, as a country of sane, intelligent, compassionate, and educated people come to the point where our lawmakers behave with such displays of ignorance?
How can you stand before the entire world and behave worse than cavemen? You are a disgrace to man-hood. I hope your wives and children are ashamed to go out with you today, on Father's Day.
Oh, of course, I love you. If I didn't, who would? Agape, and all that.
Your friend,
Vivian
We need lawmakers who are far more informed and far less ignorant and ideological:
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