A South Carolina lawmaker is proposing a bill that even she knows is ridiculous.
State Rep. Mia McLeod’s bill would impose unnecessary restrictions on erectile dysfunction drugs for men in her state. It’s her “tongue-in-cheek response” to pro-life lawmakers’ efforts to protect unborn babies and women from abortion, according to the Lawyer Herald.
“Government has no place making a decision for people when it comes to abortion – or erectile dysfunction,” McLeod said, acknowledging that her bill will never become law.
McLeod is not the first pro-abortion legislator to attempt this type of political stunt. A Kentucky pro-abortion lawmaker introduced a bill in February that would require men to swear on the Bible to only use the prescription for erectile dysfunction drugs while having sex with his current spouse. The bogus bills never go anywhere in the legislature, but they serve abortion advocates’ purpose of creating publicity for their agenda.
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The Associated Press reports more about the South Carolina bill:
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, which mirror requirements of South Carolina’s abortion law.
They would have to get a sworn, notarized statement from their sexual partner saying they needed the medicine, which could bring up medical privacy issues. McLeod said she would alter the bill to assign patients numbers like state health officials do with women who get abortions.
McLeod used the publicity surrounding her ridiculous bill to blast South Carolina legislators for investigating Planned Parenthood in the wake of undercover videos showing it trafficking aborted babies’ body parts.
“Where have these guys been all these years? We could’ve really used the help when my Republican colleagues wasted our time and your tax dollars investigating Planned Parenthood without cause and coming up with extra hoops and hurdles for women to jump through,” she said.
Far from a waste of time and money, the South Carolina investigation uncovered health violations at three Planned Parenthood abortion facilities in the state and fined all three for illegally disposing aborted babies’ bodies, LifeNews reported. It’s McLeod’s bill that better fits that description.
Abortion supporters miss the whole point of pro-life legislation when they equating erectile dysfunction drugs to abortion in these bogus bills. The two are not morally equivalent, a fact that South Carolina state Rep. Wendy Nanney pointed out during a discussion about the legislation, the AP reports.
“I think people are very callous and act like it is just a medical procedure and it is so much more than that – you are taking a human life,” Nanney said.
As Nanney said, pro-life advocates work to end abortion, not because we want the government to control women’s bodies, as abortion activists claim, but because abortion kills an innocent human being in the womb.
