Best way to keep women away when discussing their icky reproductive rights?

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www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/12/tampons-confiscated-texas_n_3588177.html?ncid=edlinkusaolp00000003

especially those scary menstruating ones.

But surely ANYTHING could be thrown - phones, wallets etc?

Perhaps this will inspire a protester to empty their moon cup onto a senator.

Yes, anything could be thrown, keys, phones, wallets, bullets from the handguns which you're allowed to take into the chamber.... so obviously sanitary protection is what security should be confiscating

I just saw this somewhere else!

At the idea of emptying a mooncup over a senator!!!!!

I would pay good money to see a senator hit slap in the face with a mooncup....

Saw this last night #tampongate. Tampons obviously are very scary things (as menstruating is). The dark arts. Obviously these women should just be kept pregnant.

Several levels of misogyny going on there methinks!

They really just hate women in Texas, don't they?

Don't know whether to laugh or cry.
It reminds me of Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch with their, "bring out the soft cushions!" and "oh no! Not the comfy chair?!" If they'd prefer to be hit by flying ipods or magnums rather than women's things, more fool them.

*magnums = guns, not ice creams!

What a bunch of sad wankers!

I assume the actual reason is it would be more "humiliating" to be hit by a tampon than by, say, some coins or sweets.

I would imagine that was exactly their reasoning DoctrineofSnatch

just when they are trying to convince people they aren't doing this because they hate women but to "improve their health" they show the hate so vividly. I bet that republican woman who thinks rape kits "clean a woman out" so she can't get pregnant wasn't told she couldn't carry tampon.

Ooh, or a woman having her period isn't fulfilling her biological destiny because she isn't PG or breast feeding...

on a similar note - in Texas, fetus is a person, if abortion is discussed. But not if the same fetus might need health care:
www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/07/09/texas-abortion-bill-author_n_3570588.html

So...how many of those women are limited to a few hours there before they have to leave in case of leaks?
I'm sure it's not a massive number, but a huge 'fuck you, bitches' to all women present. Nice and symbolic. The fuckers.

WTAF?! How can that be legal? Fucksake.

hazle, people apply for benefits because they've already decided they're keeping their baby. The government just wants women to keep breeding it doesn't give a fuck if the babies are born healthy it doesn't give a fuck about outcomes after they are born.

I wonder what would have happened if one of the women just bled all over. if they would be removed?

Actually, due to widespread derision, they stopped doing the confiscation. But the frelling bill still passed the last I heard.