Sen. Farnese to offer bill requiring exams for men with ED
Sen. Larry Farnese (D., Phila.) wants to ensure that government mandated physical exams are an equal opportunity invader of privacy.
Sen. Farnese to offer bill requiring exams for men with ED
Sen. Larry Farnese (D., Phila.) wants to ensure that government-mandated physical exams are an equal opportunity invader of privacy.
Farnese says he plans to introduce a bill next week requiring men combating erectile dysfunction (ED) to undergo similar tests.
That's in response to the widely-criticized House Bill 1077 - supported by Gov. Corbett but now stalled after opposition by medical organizations - that would require invasive pre-abortion ultrasounds for women.
Farnese called the female ultrasound bill "unnecessary and humiliating."
“No woman should be forced to undergo a transvaginal ultrasound if they don’t want or need the test. But for some reason the Republicans in the Pennsylvania House of Representatives think that their degrading legislation is the right thing for female patients who are rightfully accessing their protected health services,” said Farnese.
“I’m submitting legislation that will require men to undergo a few similarly evasive tests in order to show that this effort is ridiculous and that we should be protecting and expanding, not watering down, health services for women.”
Farnese's legislation would require male patients to:
• Be given a full prostate exam and undergo a cardiac stress test;
• Submit a signed affidavit from a sexual partner stating that the patient suffers from ED;
• Participate in sex therapy to determine if there are non-physical reasons for the individual’s ED; and
• Watch a video detailing the side effects of ED medication.
The bill also would require physicians to provide the patient with written proof that he will benefit from using ED medication and that there are no other potential medical or psychological causes to his impotency. Once approved, patients would have to present documentation proving that they completed the necessary requirements to their pharmacist before their ED prescription could be filled.
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How stupid.- Put up your money to take care of unwanted kids, and educate them, and preserve the jobs of the women forced to bear them, then run other people's lives.
— elfthe - Comment removed.
- And we pay this guy for this type stuff? Only in Phila!— cb54
- EDITOR'S NOTE: Invasive not evasive.
PERSONAL NOTE: When is inability to "get it up" equivalent to "whacking a kid in utero"?
POLITICAL NOTE: You guys elected him in Philadelphia! Please!
— Bucks County Mike - Corbett is opposed to invasive testing for females...so the deception of the left continues.
And I would support this loons proposed legislation if testing for erectile dysfunction was a step to prevent the murder of an innocent child. No problem....bring it on Farnese. Loon.— kelprod2 - The nanny diction not upright, big crappy government trying to sell erectile disfunction meds to people who don't need it. Big bro and sis can see you in your bedroom.
Look out for the Obanana brownshirts in the neighborhood.— LJM - The nanny diction not upright, big crappy government trying to sell erectile disfunction meds to people who don't need it. Big bro and sis can see you in your bedroom.Look out for the Obanana brownshirts in the neighborhood. (HTML deleted)— LJM
- How about everyone with ED goes to the senators office and he can try polishing his bishop.— edith bunker
- This is a showboat bill. No one seriously wants to pass it, they just want to get attention to point out the unfairness of the ultrasound-for-abortion bill.— ICDogg
- Seems that conservatives can get their jollies when women have to jump through hoops, but ask a guy to do the same? OMG!— mike l
- They are NOT conservatives, they want to increase the role of Government in the lives of the majority of citizens (women), they want to spend taxpayer money to promote religious agendas. The only thing they want to conserve is their power in government and they don't care who they use to do it. — elfthe
- They should pass the bill with the amendment that if you claim to have been raped by Larry Farnese, the requirement for the testing is waived.— Mr. Smith
