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"Is there a hotter topic on the table right now than our ovaries and who&amp;#x27;s making the calls about what&amp;#x27;s happening under our Spanx? (Spoiler alert: Nope.) In response to the reproductive rights legislation making rounds all over the U.S., like Virginia&amp;#x27;s pre-abortion ultrasound bill, and Texas&amp;#x27;s push for a pre-abortion sonogram (um, yikes), one Missouri State Representative is taking on the dudes. According to the Riverfront Times Daily RFT blog, Stacey Newman (this woman with the fab haircut, thanks) of St. Louis filed HB1853, proposing that men would only be allowed to have a vasectomy when getting the procedure would protect him from serious injury or death. If the bill were to succeed, vasectomies would have to be performed in a hospital, ambulatory surgery center or health facility with a state Department of Health and Senior Services license. Rep. Newman--whom I&amp;#x27;d like to nominate for Hero Squad right here and now--has been frustrated with the recent political debates over birth control access and reproductive health. The legislation is her pointed way of combating the idea that family planning is something only women have to worry about. In my humble opinion, this is kind of awesome and hilarious (and awesome, if I didn&amp;#x27;t mention that one before). But wait! It doesn&amp;#x27;t end there. In response to a &amp;quot;heartbeat bill&amp;quot; proposed in Ohio, which would ban abortion after a heartbeat is detected, Democratic Ohio State Senator Nina Turner is proposing legislation to regulate Viagra. And she&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;just as serious as the men policymakers across the nation who introduced bills to regulate a woman&amp;#x27;s reproductive health&amp;quot;: Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy According to the vid, Turner&amp;#x27;s bill would require men to see a sex therapist, undergo a cardiac stress test and get an affidavit from the sex partner before a Viagra or similar drug prescription would be allowed to be written. Imagine! What&amp;#x27;s your reaction to State Rep. Newman&amp;#x27;s and State Sen. Turner&amp;#x27;s proposed legislation? Do you think they&amp;#x27;re making silly moves for attention, or taking bold stands to raise their voices? Photo: Thinkstock"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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