I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina,
but ‘no means no.’

That quote from Michigan state Rep. Lisa Brown has gotten plenty of attention, along with her banishment from the House floor for uttering the word “vagina,” a perfectly natural, normal part of female anatomy. A word that was attached to legislation under debate. And as Rep. Brown points out, if you can’t say “vagina” you shouldn’t legislate it.

Yet while saying “vagina” is off limits, it’s just fine to propose laws that threaten women’s lives and health?

That’s right, inane Michigan legislators want to forbid health care providers from following the cheapest and most advanced medical practices for administering drugs to end a pregnancy. And they want to bar doctors from supervising the procedure via videoconference.

Next, Rep. Barb Byrum was banned for recommending vasectomies be regulated, in an attempt to show how ludicrous legislating women’s vaginas is.

Really, the men who barred Brown and Byrum from speaking rule only because they make the rules, not because their rules make any sense.

Same with Catholic Bishops scolding nuns for helping the poor and promoting health care when “obviously” they should be spending their time spewing hate toward gays and letting women die from back ally abortions.

It’s all part of the War on Women that seeks to control our bodies, minds and voices.

But women aren’t sitting back and taking it. Soon after the banishments thousands of women gathered at the Michigan State Capitol to hear their Reps perform The Vagina Monologues, where the word was uttered – and shouted — more than a hundred times.

As Rep. Brown put it, “Vaginas are here to stay.”

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