Bring on the fainting couch and smelling salts:
Michigan House Republicans blocked a state representative from speaking on the floor on Thursday after she referenced certain parts of female anatomy in a speech on an abortion bill.
“Finally, Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no,’” Rep. Lisa Brown (D) said to cap her remarks in which she expressed stark opposition to a series of bills regulating abortion, including one that would ban the procedure after 20 weeks unless the woman’s life was in danger, according to The Detroit News.
House Republicans called the remarks over the line and barred her from participating in a subsequent debate on education.
“It was so offensive, I don’t even want to say it in front of women,” one state representative said. “I would not say that in mixed company.”
But Brown was defiant, accusing her colleagues of trying to censor her with their sensitive take on acceptable decorum.
“If I can’t say the word vagina, why are we legislating vaginas?” Brown said at a press conference. “What language should I use?”
What’s truly offensive is that these stuffy old bores and patriarchs are more worried about hearing about ladybits during the debate than they are about the despicable way they’re trying to regulate what goes on with it. They actually banned the women from speaking. Welcome to the Taliban, Lansing chapter.
To quote ABL: “VAGINA! VAGINA! VAGINA!”