Michigan Lawmaker to Help Perform ‘Vagina Monologues’ After Anti-Abortion Bill Debate Flap on House Floor
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LANSING, Mich. (AP) — A Michigan lawmaker barred from speaking in the state House after she used the word “vagina” during a debate on an anti-abortion bill will participate in a performance of the Tony Award-winning play, “The Vagina Monologues,” on the state Capitol steps.
Rep. Lisa Brown talks with staffer Katie Carey, left, after telling reporters that she was banned from speaking because of comments she made on the floor Wednesday about her vagina.
Michigan Democratic Party fundraiser Laura Hornshaw said Saturday in an email that Monday evening’s performance was planned in response to Rep. Lisa Brown not being allowed to speak on the House floor Thursday.
Republicans who control the chamber said the West Bloomfield Democrat violated decorum Wednesday while speaking against a bill requiring doctors to ensure women aren’t coerced into ending their pregnancies.
Brown told Republicans she was flattered they were “all so concerned about my vagina. But no means no.”
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Meyvn
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 7:57amCome. See the live clitoris.
Report Post »JohnHW
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 12:23amRep. Lisa Brown – you said in one of the stories I read on this subject, “I used an anatomically correct word. I said vag..a. Is there something wrong with that? Can I not say elbow? I don’t see the difference.” Lisa, you can show your elbow, but would you show your vag..a to a room full of men????? When you put on your play, “The Vag..a Monologues” show your audience just what you are talking about. You can’t show the aforementioned part of your body because, except for the entrance, it is completely inside your body. I just love it when such a “smart” person shows her complete ignorence about sometime she has been using for years.
Report Post »TheTruth2012
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 9:28pmI am for one not interested in this woman’s ******. I do however have a problem with the murder of unborn children. If a woman has an abortion as a form of birth control she should automatically be put in prison for murder, no questions asked.
Report Post »The Voice of Libertarian Reason
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 9:50amObama – “I am going to teach them (my daughters) first of all about values and morals. But if they make a mistake, I don’t want them punished with a baby,”
If you make a mistake and you are not in some way shape or form punished, you will not learn your from your mistake (this is actually backed up by clinical research). So what other punishment (if not a baby) could woman who choose to get an abortion be subjected to?
I am against abortions but as a means to come to some common ground with the people that call
murder “choice” why not propose the following:
- If you get an abortion you must also be sterilized.
I believe the capital punishment advocates refer to this as a deterrent.
Report Post »IMPrepared
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 9:11pmDirty rotten fithy skank. EWWWWWWWWW!
Report Post »de Clamores
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 6:25pmSure will be entertaining to see how the L.minora moves about in reply to the L. majora demands for some quiet in the room. Please take a zoomed in video of Rep. Lisa Brown’s perinuim when both Labia starts the monologue.Show all these in“ you tube ” or in “face book”
Report Post »13
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:21pmThe ****** Monologues is a story about the rape of a 13 year old child.
Report Post »How is that in any way good or acceptable?
Constantine Ivanov
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 5:25pmYou obviously did not read “The Va97na Monologues”
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 7:06pmThat is only one part of the play. Still, that one part is revolting, hypocritical and contradictory. The play, over-all, has an anti-male bias, portraying (for the most part) heterosexual sex as violence and men as rapists. However, it tries to tell us that an adult woman giving alcohol to, then seducing, a thirteen year old, is somehow okay. And this play is used as a fundraiser for anti-rape organization, while at the same time applauding rape.
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 3:42pmNo such vulgarity and filth has ever been spoken in legislative history! Imagine, during a debate on a bill that seeks to put draconian regulations on nearly all reproductive health services, someone dares utter the scientific, proper name for female sexual organs. How dare she!
Report Post »KellyR
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:28pmUm, I don’t think it was the word…I think it was the context …She was being crass and sarcastic in her attempt to make her point. Not to mention the fact, that if she was truly trying to be scientifically correct, she should have used Uterus and Ovaries. They are just as, if not more involved in a woman’s reproductive system.
Report Post »KellyR
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:35pmAND…by the way…I’m not endorsing the bill! ( I don’t know enough about it to argue either way) I simply believe that regardless of what our opinion is, it can be argued without purposely offending the other side.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 5:37pmYou nicely replaced the word “abortion” with the word “reproductive.”
Report Post »A dare remind you that the word “abort” means “terminate”, while the word “reproduce” means regenerate, breathe new life, revitalize.
In other words, abortion services are something opposite to reproductive services. And vice versa.
Like all Liberasts and sharpers, you love swindling, don’t you?
Bruce P.
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 6:57pmConstantine — it is a 45 page bill. Abortion is not the only thing covered in the bill; it seeks to regulate all aspects of women’s reproductive health.
Do not talk to me about “swindling” when you know damn well that spinning this as just bill focusing on abortion is a gross mischaracterization. But you have to mischaracterize it as just a bill focusing on protecting women from forced abortions in order to cover-up what else is in the bill, so that you may swindle people into supporting it.
You continue to swindle people by telling us you are so concerned and morally outraged by abortion. Complete and total BS. It is not abortions you are worried about, but the control of women’s lives. Draconian bills like this belie your true intentions. If you were so worried about limiting abortions and making them rare, you would not be seeking to regulate birth-control as well.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 11:21pm@BRUCE P.:
1. I am talking about swindling only when and if you use the word “abortion” as a synonym for reproducing. Abortion is the direct opposite of reproduction, hence by using the words “abortion” and reproducing interchangeably, you do swindle.
2. It‘s a pity that you don’t [want to] understand/acknowledge that this bill is designed to hinder the rabid feminist movement of promoting the late-term abortion.
3. BS, a very stinky BS is when you accusing opponents of deeds and/or intentions you THINK you know…or you intentionally and falsely fabricate.
A. Love to control everything, and first of all – others’ lives, is not Conservatives’ “hobby”, but rather – that of Liberasts.
B. If only women had seen color images of a baby in a womb at different stages of development and an actual abortion procedure through a lens, it would be incomparably less females willing to go for abortion. Unless they are monsters, of course.
As for birth-control, there are two aspects in this: a) why should taxpayers pay for somebody’s copulations? b) birth-control and abortion are two sides of the same coin: unwillingness to procreate (give a birth to a child) “boiled” in an addictive willingness to keep copulating.
If to take into account that the birthrate goes down (particularly among White females) while the number of old people is growing, who will support those elderly? Or you prefer to kill them too?
To be continued…
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 11:22pm@BRUCE P.:
Continuation:
How can a country survive, if fertility is constantly declines?
You imply that I am a religious person led exclusively by religiuous morals. Wrong. I simply saw by my own eyes babies being crashed during an abortion procedure. I want every female – young and adult – to see that. It’s unforgettable. And no religion is needed to remind how horable it is.
P.S. Please remember that ABORTION is not a part of REPRODUCTIVE whatever. At least don’t use it in that manner when talking with me.
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:17pm1. I did not use abortion interchangeably with reproduction. I was very clear in what I said; this bill does not seek to limit only abortions, but regulate as well all aspects of women’s reproductive health. You want to focus only on the abortion aspects, in order to hide what else is in the bill.
2. Your ignorance about the bill is obvious. The bill is not focused on late-term abortions, but supposedly protecting women from being coerced into abortions by their partners. However, the bill does not only seek to control abortions, but birth-control as well.
3. There is a reason you continue to focus on the abortion aspects of the bill…to disguise what else is in it through scare tactics.
A. “Love to control everything, and first of all – others’ lives, is not Conservatives’ “hobby”, but rather – that of Liberasts.” Again, complete and total BS. Both liberals and conservatives seek the control of people’s lives. Why else would you be supporting a bill that seeks to not only regulate and restrict abortions, but access to birth control .
“As for birth-control, there are two aspects in this: a) why should taxpayers pay for somebody’s copulations”
This bill has absolutely nothing to do with this. You are muddying the waters in order to continue hiding what else is in the bill.
An addiction to copulating? You don’t have intimate relations with your spouse (or partner)? Sex is not simply for procreating, but how couples for
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:14pm@BRUCE P.:
To end this dispute (that already seems to become boring), let’s review:
1. You said : “I did not use abortion interchangeably with reproduction.”
The very next phrase, though, that actually repeats what you already said in your other comments, says this: “Abortion is not the only thing covered in the bill; it seeks to regulate all aspects of women’s reproductive health.”
I translate into my native language: “abortion is just one of several aspects of women’s reproductive health.” Am I translating wrong?
No, I am not. But you are: abortion is not “a part of reproductive health aspects”. 1:0.
2. You said: “Your ignorance about the bill is obvious.” Hmmm.
It seems you and I were reading different Bills… or in different languages… Or through different prisms, which is most likely:
I have found in two versions of the Bill (HOUSE BILL No. 5711 and HB-5711, As Passed House, June 13, 2012 SUBSTITUTE FOR HOUSE BILL NO. 5711; see http://www.legislature.mi.gov) that the main portion of the Bill (EASILY passed by a vote of 70 to 39, even 6 Democrats voted for it!) is to defend women from coerced abortions, from malpractice, from tele-med abortions.
But you seem to be in such a deep love with late-term (starting from 20 weeks) abortions, which suppose to be banned in the Bill HB5713 that is yet to be discussed later, that this one, HB5711, already made you go off in a swoon.
To be continued…
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 4:26pmTo conclude:
To curb your passion for abortions (oh, sorry, I forgot: not abortion, productive health, which probably supposes to mean ‘healthy producing FETAL BODY PARTS’), I would highly recommend you to take a very close look at an abortion procedure, particularly when a person who alledgedly took a Hippocratic oath not to harm, crashes the baby’s head and extremities.
3. You said: “Both liberals and conservatives seek the control of people’s lives”
I came from a country of the total control, which Americans have no slightest clue about.
I know what control is.
So, I can tell you that in my almost 20 years of living in the USA, I found that the passion to control people’s lives is overwhelmingly and predomionantly a “prerogative” of those who I call “Liberasts” (from Lat “Lib” + Greelk “erastos”, lover). But that passion is like a gumboil – very much one-sided: they (you included?) love controlling everybody except themselves.
Some 40-30 years ago, I would have asked myself: why do certain people defend abortions?
Report Post »It was a mystery for me. Not anymore.
Liberasts are like flesh-eating bacteria: all their passion is about and around sex, for which they are willing to destroy their own country.
In Russian it‘s called ’to cut the branch one is sitting on’
Constantine Ivanov
Posted on June 19, 2012 at 7:13pm@BRUCE P.:
Sorry, I forgot to react on your last paragraph: “An addiction to copulating? You don’t have intimate relations with your spouse (or partner)? Sex is not simply for procreating, but how couples for”
All [honest] people know that problems related to abortions occur MOSTLY, PREDOMINANTLY, IN MAIN, FOR THE MOST PART, MAINLY (I emphasize it so strongly in order to avoid your possible and predictable accusations of inaccuracy) among NON-MARRIED and UNDER-AGE damsels who use to conduct not the most righteous, enviable life.
Married couple usually (except for greenhorns and clinical idiots) know how to avoid pregnancy: there are dozens of ways available.
(You can believe me: I have five children and eleven grandchildren, so, I do have some experience…-:) )
As for “sex is not simply for procreating,” certain kind of people evidently forgot or unaware that the more or less strong sexual desire, aka biological call, has been “embedded” into all living beings by Nature of by God (whichever you prefer) in order to INSTIGATE, to PROVOKE, to STIMULATE procreation. It’s the basic biological mechanism designed to continue LIFE.
Report Post »So, the primary task, the fundamental function of SEX is procreation. Which, of course, does not exclude the use of sex as a pleasure.
The problem is that the spoiled youth seems to be unaware of the basics: hedonism became a drug.
Constantine Ivanov
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 2:31pmThe Blaze idiotically filters out words in posts despite the presence of the same words in the titles of their columns.
So, I had to replace some letters by numbers in order to bring to readers what I wanted to say.
Thus, I am posting the same comment, but this time – “encrypted” -:)
Not only “The Va91na Monologues” is one of the most idiotic books I happened to read in my life, but it also reveals that the mad sex-addicted Liberasts, like the book’s author Eve Ensler, don’t even know what they are talking about.
Report Post »They mostly call “va91na” what in fact is vulva, illiterate sex-addicted idiots.
Bruce P.
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 3:50pmI like how liberals are supposedly sex-addicted, yet it is the GOP that is trying to legislate people’s sexual and reproductive lives.
So much for small government.
Report Post »Constantine Ivanov
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 2:27pmNot only “The ****** Monologues” is one of the most idiotic books I happened to read in my life, but it also reveals that the mad sex-addicted Liberasts, like the book’s author Eve Ensler, don’t even know what they are talking about.
Report Post »They mostly call “******” what in fact is vulva, illiterate sex-addicted idiots.
michael48
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 1:16pmwhere in he!! does the DNC commune party find these mindless twits????? 65 years and didn’t realize there was this many nut-jobs in the universe…dam glad I’m old..these morons don’t know what orfice to place food in from one meal to the next….but can quote Alinsky, thier Union work rules and Moveon.nut morning indoctrination talking points…disgusting..at best!!!
Report Post »Gamaliel
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:38pmNever use their euphemism “pro-choice”. This hypocrite spoke AGAINST a bill requiring doctors to ensure a woman is not FORCED into an abortion. Earth to pro-aborts: we know that you abort girls and women everyday who are coerced and dragged into abortion clinics by pimps, parents, boyfriends. Abortionists do not care if girls and women are coerced; they just need their cash.
This bill was to ensure that pregnant girls and women have a CHOICE! BTW if the pro-aborts were “pro-choice” they‘d oppose the brutal enforcement of China’s one-child policy.
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 3:51pmThis bill is not simply about protecting women from a forced abortion, but regulating all aspects of a woman’s reproductive health, under the lie of “protecting” them.
Report Post »paperpushermj
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:23pm“tilting at windmills” that the first image that popped into my mind. This Congresswomen suffers from the missing tile syndrome. Women have made tremendous advancements over men during the last 30 years to the point that they now occupy the positive side of most social indicators such as graduating from High School then College,Alcohol/Drug Abuse, Suicide, Being Employed etc etc. So not seeing any of that, she sees only what she sees as missing. Women would be so much better if only Birth Control was not only available and free but also delivered by the pharmacy door to door at no extra charge. The same thing for Abortion she will not be satisfied until the Abortionist make house calls and when finished with their grisly job, give a candy and sticker to the now women with the now empty Womb.
Report Post »bikerdogred1
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:12pmHome sweet home,the front door.
Report Post »deadend
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:09pmLove liberals and their convaluted thinking. You make the choice to spread your legs and get knocked up …….. kill the baby because it’s my body……that is only your choice the man has no choice but you do not want to give him a choice you just want him to pay for the murder….. your choice to have the baby … you still do not want to give him a choice just shut up and pay. You liberals always want to claim it’s not fair but just like a good leftist, always claim the other guy is commiting the injustice that you are commiting. Black is white and white is black in the liberal world.
Report Post »onebigassmistakeamerica
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:06pmThese baby killing liberals make me sick.
And what is with censoring V-a-g-i-n-a when its in the title? That seems kinda dumb.
Report Post »David in OKC
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 11:39amAnother classless liberal stuck in the 60′s. It’s all about “me”, and “my body” (especialy “my ******”)
Report Post »Well guess what you clueless idiot, it isn’t about “you” anymore once you allow yourself to get knocked up. It “was” all about “your ******” when you made the decision to slut around but now that you have a living being inside of you, it’s suddenly become all about “the baby” as well as “the father of the baby”.
I would buy this argument if women where ignorant as to how babies were concieved and didn’t know any better. (Oh my God!, I’m pregnant. How did that happen?) But you made the decision to role the dice and the dice came up babies. Now your left with the consequences of your own irresponsible decision. But instead of being a grown up and taking responsiblity for your decision, you’re now choosing to make an innocent life responsible for it. Your verdict____murder. I mean, as long as you don‘t have to see it then it doesn’t exist right? Isn’t that the reasoning that you baby killers use? As long as you can make it about body parts and scientific cells then we should all just ignore the fact that that blob of cells has a living, beating heart.
And what about the father? Why aren’t we pushing for more legislation to give the father more say so in these matters? It isn’t about “you” or “your ******” anymore you moron.
David in OKC
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 11:50amHey Blaze. What’s with censoring the word “******” when you have it clearly printed in the title of your article?
Report Post »Lori-4-USA
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 10:07amHey lady, if that’s what you are, they are just asking for a little respect! You ask, what is that? I can tell you have no idea. Just another big-mouthed liberal ‘using’ her gender in a classless way. Your lack of class is heard usually by a group of classess tubers floating down a Michigan river while you bring you kids down to enjoy nature. Go back to the river!
Report Post »bluesdog
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 9:38amSomebody needs to write the VIAGRA monologues!
Report Post »notalib56
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 9:37amGod GROW up people its only a word you idiots make conservative look like fools, big freaking deal she said ******!
Report Post »Walkabout
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 8:22amI am confused. The female lawmaker looks like she is dressed for shopping or stroll in the park. Can the male lawmakers wear muscle shirts & ripped T-shirts if this is what the female lawmaker & her female aide wear?
There is a fine line on this abortion/killing debate. “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink.” There is only so much morality that is feasible to legislate or that you would want to legislate.
I can see legislators wanting women/females (not everyone showing up for an abortion is a full fledged woman) to look at the person ion the face before they kill them. That was the whole point of the “invasive” ultrasounds in Virginia. But at some point since it is intra-family you have to give up & let them to their foolishness.
What is next tube tops while in sessions? No wonder this woman indignantly interrupted the proceeding out of turn.
Report Post »deadend
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 12:02pmodviously you have not heard of the great state of Nebraska’s unicameral. They had a lawmaker (liber racist) Ernie Chambers who had such contempt for “white man’s rules” so he was always in t’s or muscal shirts.
Report Post »ContinentalArmy
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 7:21amThese Stupid ass Law Makers, are exactly whats wrong with this country now! Worried about your ******, Biatch don’t get Pregnant! Dumb Ass!!!
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 3:36pmRepublicans are trying to make it difficult for women to avoid pregnancy. They claim they want to end abortions, but then turn around and try to legislate away a woman’s ability to avoid unwanted pregnancies. It is a ruse, control under the guise of “protection.”
Report Post »Git-R-Done
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 5:31pmBruce – Apparently you’ve never heard of this thing called individual responsibility. Nobody is making it more difficult for women to avoid pregnancy. It‘s not anybody else’s responsibility to pay for her birth control, STD tests and treatments, pregnancy tests, abortions, prenatal care, or child care. Those are all things she has to pay for herself just like the rest of us.
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:19pmHere, you claim that conservatives are not about controlling people’s lives and that everyone should make their own way, but you seek to restrict access to birth control (notice I did not say abortion. Let’s be clear so you do not twist it. BIRTH CONTROL) in order to force women to have babies so there is someone to take care of older generations in the future. And that if you don’t restrict abortions and birth control, our country won’t survive. Therefore, women need to be forced to have babies! You don’t seek to control people’s lives? Yeah right.
Report Post »Bruce P.
Posted on June 18, 2012 at 11:21pmGIT-R-DONE — as usual, my friend, your ignorance is incredible. This bill has nothing to do with taxpayers paying for abortions or birth control. It actively seeks to restrict access.
Report Post »Ch
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 5:12amTrying to recapture the 60’s are you? Leftists are so stuck. No one cares. Scream the Vigana Monologues…only angry feminist leftist are still beating this old tired drum.
Report Post »GenOptimus
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 5:03amIt’s Bush”s fault.
Report Post »Live Slowly
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:55amHA!!!! I would like to see what the libs reaction to a man saying to a room consisting of mostly women, “Hey, Thanks for being so concerned about my penis, but…”
Report Post »lukerw
Posted on June 17, 2012 at 4:00amWest Bloomfield… is full of Liberal Flukes!
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