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
Fresh_Start
(11,330 posts)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.
Pacifist Patriot
(24,653 posts)eggplant
(3,911 posts)snort
(2,334 posts)will your Doctor be ready?
Cassiopeia
(2,603 posts)as well as counseling about alternative options as well.
TeamPooka
(24,229 posts)Politicub
(12,165 posts)A place to learn new things - another reason why DU is a national treasure.
Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)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)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.
GOLGO 13
(1,681 posts)mwooldri
(10,303 posts)... 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)And it works.
ET Awful
(24,753 posts)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)But I did know that wealthy women have always had access to the "precautionary arts" here and abroad.
annabanana
(52,791 posts)C-Span?... like SC-Span or something?
japple
(9,831 posts)I freakin love it!
LastLiberal in PalmSprings
(12,586 posts)Thanks, Monty Python!
Feeling the Bern
(3,839 posts)to you immediately, no questions asked.