A Woman's Womb: America's New Sports Arena

http://www.truth-out.org/womans-womb-americas-new-sports-arena/1330093814

A Woman's Womb: America's New Sports Arena
Saturday 25 February 2012
by: Connie Schultz, Truthout | Op-Ed

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I always have thought my birth control was a whole lot of nobody's business. However, Santorum and that all-male panel of pontificates at the recent congressional hearing make clear that silence is not an option. Not if I -- not if we -- want subsequent generations of women to live long, healthy lives.

Outrage works. The Virginia Legislature was about to pass a bill that required women seeking an abortion to undergo a vaginal ultrasound probe. Those of us paying attention in Ohio will remember legislators chuckling over that gadget during a hearing on the so-called heartbeat bill. Thanks in large part to MSNBC's Rachel Maddow's reporting, the bill became the object of national ridicule. Now Virginia's governor is balking.

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I can't help but think we could deter a lot of this unnecessary sex with a mandatory Viagra video. Red-faced guys grabbing their chests in a swirl of Vera Wang sheets. Guys dangling their heads over the side of the bed to hurl. At the end, the camera slowly zooms in on the way-too-young girlfriend, her long tresses blowing in the wind as she sobs at graveside.

Surely, this additional information would inspire men across America to swear off sex and take up mah-jongg.

Just as surely, I would become Queen Constancia, empress ruler of Freedonia.