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(according to this woman-hating cretin, vasectomies are soooooooo much worse than abortions)
There's A Vas Deferens Between These Procedures
Gross Tennessee Legislator Tells State Senate About That Time He Got Spayed
A Tennessee state senator decided that right on the Senate floor was the best place to describe medical procedures on his own genitals. Before you think hes super gross, just know that he did it so he could talk down to some lady person, so its cool.
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You remember State Senator Gardenhire of the great state of Tennessee, right? Of course you do. He was the super nice guy who called sidewalk chalkers literal Nazis and then called a constituent an asshole right to his face. Moran, youre supposed to wait until youre back at your office to show contempt for your voters. See, Gardenhire has some dumb ideas about healthcare namely that poor people should never get it, ever and this commitment to the fuck you I got mine wing of his party has made him none-too-popular with his constituents, hence all the super Nazi chalk assault. Gardenhire is such an expert on all things health that it might surprise you to know he also has some dumb ideas about abortion. No, its true! And those dumb ideas involve mansplaining to a woman how he scheduled his own vasectomy. Uh, thanks?
In the course of discussing Tennessees newest abortion bill, State Senator Sara Kyle brought up the point that the newly introduced 48-hour waiting period for an abortion was rather strange considering that there wasnt a similar law for men seeking vasectomies.
What I dont understand is the discrimination, Kyle said, according to the digital recording of the meeting. Youre putting all this burden on the woman. Why dont we put these same standards on the man who wants the vasectomy?
So, Kyle told an attorney for Tennessee Right to Life, Im just asking that whats good for the goose could be good for the gander.
Careful now. Youre asking the pro-lifers to see women as people, and theyre just not ready for that yet. They barely even see women as geese yet.
Senator Gardenhire, presumably having fallen asleep during Kyles speech and only waking up upon hearing his safe word vasectomy, decided that he needed to correct her blatant misinformation about dudes getting their tubes snipped by sharing the minutia of how he scheduled both of his own vasectomies.
I wanted to kind of walk Sen. Kyle through what a vasectomy is and what you have to go through to have one, having personal experience in that field, Gardenhire said.
Stop.
I also had one reversed. I want to promise you that when you start talking to a doctor about them whacking on you down there you want to wait a while and think about it.
No, stop. Stop right now, gross old man.
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Read more at http://wonkette.com/582291/gross-tennessee-legislator-tells-state-senate-about-that-time-he-got-spayed#GE4DHQzzBBAiAjUF.99
randome
(34,845 posts)[hr][font color="blue"][center]The truth doesnt always set you free.
Sometimes it builds a bigger cage around the one youre already in.[/center][/font][hr]
niyad
(113,636 posts)Go Vols
(5,902 posts)that helped screw the people of Tenn. out of the Obamacare Medicaid expansion a couple of weeks ago.
http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2015/04/11/lawmakers-work-tennesseans-insure-tennessee/25613915/
DetlefK
(16,423 posts)We don't want no back-alley vasectomies. That's why the door-frames at the vasectomy-clinic (the only one for 100 miles around) have to be up to code.
And we shouldn't forget sidewalk-counselors who try to make a point that he's a baby-killer by screaming it into his face.
And we shouldn't forget to let politicians decide what his doctor can and cannot tell him about vasectomies.
n2doc
(47,953 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go gouge out my mind's eye with a melon baller...
niyad
(113,636 posts)backscatter712
(26,355 posts)Orrex
(63,240 posts)There's a vas deferens between his minor (and entirely elective) procedure and abortion.
And would Gardenhire want a legislator peeking into his scrotum during his surgery?