Lawmaker asks if swallowed camera be used for female exam
Source: Associated Press
Lawmaker asks if swallowed camera be used for female exam
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, Associated Press | February 23, 2015 | Updated: February 23, 2015 6:51pm
BOISE, Idaho (AP) — An Idaho lawmaker received a brief lesson on female anatomy after asking if a woman can swallow a small camera for doctors to conduct a remote gynecological exam.
The question Monday from Republican state Rep. Vito Barbieri came as the House State Affairs Committee heard nearly three hours of testimony on a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine.
Dr. Julie Madsen was testifying in opposition to the bill when Barbieri asked the question. Madsen replied that would be impossible because swallowed pills do not end up in the vagina.
"Fascinating. That makes sense," Barbieri said, amid the crowd's laughter.
The committee approved the bill 13-4 on a party-line vote, where it now goes to the House floor for a full vote. Barbieri, who sits on the board of a crisis pregnancy center in northern Idaho, voted in favor of the legislation.
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What an idiot! 
our government. 
Is this man a fucking human?
just fucking stupid. 
In both men and women the G.I. track .... from the mouth to the old poop shoot
and the urinary tract (kidneys to the bladder to the pee pipe) are two diferent
pathways.
...pathetic and pitiful.
... was about 180 million years ago, with the most recent common ancestor of genus Homo and the monotremes:
The monotremes are the last of the mammals to join us, and we meet a concestor for the first time in the then-contiguous supercontinent of Pangea. The monotremes constitutes only a few genera: Platypus, Short-beaked Echidna and Long-beaked echidna. They are mammals and have typical mammalian features such as warm-bloodedness, hair and milk production. But they resemble reptiles and birds in their possession of the cloaca and their egg-laying mode of reproduction.
Cloaca:
In zoological anatomy, a cloaca /kloʊˈeɪkə/ is the posterior opening that serves as the only opening for the intestinal, reproductive, and urinary tracts of certain animal species.
What? You can't imagine a connection between the great species Homo Sapiens and the platypus and echidnas??? Well, consider the current human condition (aka "birth defect", aka "developmental difference"
of Persistent cloaca:
A persistent cloaca is a complex anorectal and genitourinary malformation, in which the rectum, vagina, and urinary tract meet and fuse, creating a cloaca, a single common channel.
Diagnosis of a female with cloaca should be suspected in a female born with an imperforate anus and small looking genitalia. The diagnosis can be made clinically. Failure to identify a cloaca as being present in a newborn may be dangerous, as more than 90% have associated urological problems. The goal for treatment of a female born with cloaca is to achieve bowel control, urinary control, and sexual function, which includes menstruation, intercourse, and possibly pregnancy. Cloacas probably occur in 1 in 20,000 live births.
Ignorant politicians have zero comprehension of the range of human experience. Consider the female baby born with persistent cloaca, undergoing a series of surgeries in infancy to "repair" the consequences of a random genetic connection seeping through 180 million years of evolution. Consider the woman whose experiences result in a pregnancy where the resulting child cannot receive the love, care, and attention they need to pursue a fulfilling life.
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all are created equal, that they are endowed with certain inalienable rights, that among these rights are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
...of evolution??? Say it isn't so! Isn't the Earth only 6000 years old? 
I'm going to hazard a guess that the legislator in question probably never heard the phrase "ontogeny recapitulates phylogeny."
No wonder they hate vaginas so much. They wouldn't know one if it slapped them in the face.
He was doing some gotcha routine, and instead she made him into a national laughingstock.
Who won that round, Vito?
But then, Brigid already knows the answer.
