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Judi Lynn

(160,542 posts)
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:37 AM Apr 2016

Want Viagra? Come back tomorrow with a note, lawmaker says

Source: Associated Press

Want Viagra? Come back tomorrow with a note, lawmaker

Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press

Updated 4:26 am, Wednesday, April 20, 2016

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — A South Carolina lawmaker is proposing that men who want to get Viagra or other drugs to help them have sex wait for 24 hours and get a sworn statement from their sexual partners detailing their problems.

Rep. Mia McLeod says her bill is a tongue-in-cheek response to all of the rules South Carolina's male-dominated Legislature places on abortion.

It's unlikely to pass, but the Columbia Democrat says just having a committee hearing on the bill Wednesday will bring attention to the issue.

McLeod's bill would require a 24-hour waiting period before an erectile dysfunction medicine could be picked up from the pharmacy and require patients to get counseling on celibacy as a valid life choice.



Read more: http://www.chron.com/news/us/article/Want-Viagra-Come-back-tomorrow-with-a-note-7259192.php

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Want Viagra? Come back tomorrow with a note, lawmaker says (Original Post) Judi Lynn Apr 2016 OP
since more men die from viagra then women die from medical abortions... Fresh_Start Apr 2016 #1
Sounds perfectly reasonable to me. Pacifist Patriot Apr 2016 #2
Works for me. eggplant Apr 2016 #3
When the time is right, snort Apr 2016 #5
I believe a prostate ultrasound should also be required Cassiopeia Apr 2016 #7
I love you for this post. nt TeamPooka Apr 2016 #8
Didn't know that Politicub Apr 2016 #14
Actually, 72 hours Kelvin Mace Apr 2016 #4
Glad to recommend the OP and wish I could rec the replies rurallib Apr 2016 #6
It's a Cialis plot to corner the market! GOLGO 13 Apr 2016 #9
Off-label prescribing... mwooldri Apr 2016 #10
Birth control pills have been prescribed to ease menstrual flow and duration since the 70’s. displacedtexan Apr 2016 #13
Actually, they were prescribed for that purpose long before that ET Awful Apr 2016 #16
Thanks! I didn't know that. displacedtexan Apr 2016 #17
I wish the committee hearing was televised... Does SC have its own annabanana Apr 2016 #11
Impotence is God's will japple Apr 2016 #12
OMG farleftlib Apr 2016 #15
Every sperm is sacred LastLiberal in PalmSprings Apr 2016 #18
Or you can do what I did. Move to Asia and go to a pharmacy with money. They will hand it Feeling the Bern Apr 2016 #19
no thanks Skittles Apr 2016 #20

Fresh_Start

(11,330 posts)
1. since more men die from viagra then women die from medical abortions...
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 10:41 AM
Apr 2016

the bill should also require viagra to be used only under close medical supervision...in a building with 8 feet wide corridors, under a doctor with admitting privileges, and only one little blue pill at a time in a prescription.
After all if women don't need to have sex, neither do men.

Cassiopeia

(2,603 posts)
7. I believe a prostate ultrasound should also be required
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:54 AM
Apr 2016

as well as counseling about alternative options as well.

 

Kelvin Mace

(17,469 posts)
4. Actually, 72 hours
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:20 AM
Apr 2016

and they have to come back with a notarized statement from their wife that the prescription is for lawful sex and is intended for procreation.

rurallib

(62,423 posts)
6. Glad to recommend the OP and wish I could rec the replies
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 11:44 AM
Apr 2016

each of which highlights at least one of the ridiculous rules that republican male dominated have created over the years for women who want a legal medical procedure.

mwooldri

(10,303 posts)
10. Off-label prescribing...
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 12:22 PM
Apr 2016

... gets messed up by legislation like this. If it were to come to pass.

Yes this is tongue in cheek legislation that won't pass, but what the Repukes have done nationwide with legislation around women's reproductive health has created the same difficulty for doctors who may have off label uses for certain drugs that have been legislated against.

Now I am not a doctor, but a doctor should be able to prescribe their patient the medicine that they think can best help them. Sometimes what the doctor prescribes is not what the medicine was designed for. An example is clomiphene citrate (Clomid) - FDA approved to treat female infertility but prescribed by doctors off-label to treat male infertility and hypogonadism - I know because that's what the doctor prescribed for me. I'm aware some doctors have tried prescribing sildenafil citrate (viagra) for improving female sex issues (i think helping with orgasms was one but I'm not too sure).

I have no idea what drugs are used to help terminate an unwanted pregnancy but I would bet that if those drugs were found to be very beneficial to treat a condition outside its use to terminate a pregnancy then I'm sure the law would get modified pretty quickly, whilst having some stiff penalties if it was prescribed for pregnancy termination.

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
13. Birth control pills have been prescribed to ease menstrual flow and duration since the 70’s.
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 01:22 PM
Apr 2016

And it works.

ET Awful

(24,753 posts)
16. Actually, they were prescribed for that purpose long before that
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 02:09 PM
Apr 2016

It was approved by the FDA for "menstrual disorders" in 1957. Quite a few people were arrested for distributing it for birth control purposes between then and 1960 (or was it 1961) when it was finally approved by the FDA as a contraceptive (although it was still illegal for that use in most states if I'm not mistaken).

displacedtexan

(15,696 posts)
17. Thanks! I didn't know that.
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 02:30 PM
Apr 2016

But I did know that wealthy women have always had access to the "precautionary arts" here and abroad.

annabanana

(52,791 posts)
11. I wish the committee hearing was televised... Does SC have its own
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 12:35 PM
Apr 2016

C-Span?... like SC-Span or something?

 

Feeling the Bern

(3,839 posts)
19. Or you can do what I did. Move to Asia and go to a pharmacy with money. They will hand it
Wed Apr 20, 2016, 08:12 PM
Apr 2016

to you immediately, no questions asked.

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