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This unusual law was proposed by Rep. Mary Lou Marzian to make a very pointed statement regarding the right to privacy and personal medical decisions. Marzian, a Democrat from Louisville, put forward the proposed law just days after Kentucky’s Republican Gov. Matt Bevin signed into law an informed consent requirement for women seeking abortions. According to the new law, any woman seeking an abortion would be required to seek out the advice and counsel of a doctor 24 hours before she could obtain the abortion.
Protest against the informed consent provision has not been limited to Marzian’s tongue-in-cheek bill. Since Gov. Bevin’s term began, he has taken numerous steps to reduce the number and availability of abortions in Kentucky, including direct actions against Planned Parenthood. As news of the informed consent piece, viewed as anti-abortion legislation, reached the Internet, hashtags were born, most notably #AskBevinAboutMyVag. Women began using the hashtag, sending out funny posts that tied into other pieces of legislation and positions that Bevin’s was pushing, including the coal industry, environmental issues, and the Affordable Care Act.
Marzian has stated that her own reasoning about proposing that men get approval from their wives before the buy Viagra online, or any other erectile dysfunction prescription, is that it is “about family values” and that it is necessary “to protect these men from themselves”, carefully chosen responses that are frequently used as a defense for abortion restrictions and regulations.
Ethics and Informed Consent
Informed consent is an integral part of the medical code of ethics. Physicians have a medical obligation to assist a patient in making decisions about their medical care and about medical procedures. The assertion is that a patient’s ability to decide on their own medical care is only effective if the patient has all the appropriate information regarding the pros and cons of treatment. Then the patient can make and informed decision regarding the treatment and consent, or not.
In this particular case, the demand for an informed consent requirement is not a new one. Abortion is an invasive procedure, and may even be classified as outpatient surgery, raising the issue of women procuring abortion truly understanding and accepting the risks associated with the procedure. For a long time, pro-life advocates and concerned medical professionals have asserted that informed consent should be an absolute when it comes to any medical procedure. While many abortion supporters argue that the measures are meant to control and even decrease abortion availability, those for informed consent assert that following codes and standards should be the priority, allowing women to use abortion services safely and armed with all the right information.
When the subject matter is abortion rights, informed consent is viewed as both a positive and negative. For pro-life supporters, informed consent is seen not only as an important part of the medical process that is beneficial and necessary for the patient’s overall health, but also as a window of opportunity to actually prevent abortions from being chosen. Their assertion is that women who completely understand the procedure of abortion, of what occurs during the course of the procedure and afterward, may opt not to go through with the procedure.
On the other side, abortion advocates maintain that requiring a woman to go through medical consultation before having an abortion, especially the face-to-face consultation specified in this law, infringes on a woman’s right to choose and control her own body, as well as the right to privacy.
Informed Consent and Reproductive Rights
The issues of informed consent and reproductive rights have been entwined since the early days of the abortion debate. With the newly legal freedom to choose for one’s own body, and abortion deemed protected under the right to privacy, informed consent was not required or even encouraged. Teenage girls need the informed consent of their parents before they can have an abortion, and with the passing and enforcement of informed consent in numerous states, including Kentucky, women of any age are required to be informed of all the details regarding the procedure they are proposing to have, including the recovery time and possible complications.
It may seem illogical to be against the safety aspects that informed consent provide to the patient and physician alike, but advocates for unimpeded abortion rights believe that any interference from an external source, in this case a mostly-male legislature, is oppressive and hindering to women’s rights.
Marzian’s Mission
Which brings us back to the law proposed by Rep. Marzian. Marzian has stated that she understands that the bill will likely stall out, but the pointed statement she hoped to make regarding anti-abortion advocates and women’s health issues has most definitely been made. And Marzian’s mission, willing or not, may not end there, as more and more state representatives are proposing similar types of legislation, pinpointing ethical and medical angles that they believe will stymie those wishing to limit access to abortion.
More importantly, Marzian hoped to draw attention to what she saw as the overwhelming hypocrisy of her fellow politicians. The Kentucky House had previously advocated against government interference in private matters, opposing a smoking ban passing a requirement that booster seats be used. Marzian chose the subject of her bill explicitly to get the attention of the House, which is nearly 80% male. She also added the marriage provisions to focus the bill on family values, which many politicians in the House have stated is a primary motivation behind their legislative decisions.
While Marzian’s “Viagra Bill” will likely go nowhere in the House legislative process, and Bevin’s face-to-face informed consent will likely be struck down as well, both bills have put the issues of privacy and medical ethics in the spotlight. Advocates for causes and individual rights on both sides have their arguments for and against, each side eager to protect civil liberties, and the health and well-being of the individual. For medical professionals, as well as online prescription drug distributors such as eDrugstore, the possibility that restrictions on access to prescription drugs such as Viagra, Cialis and Levitra could occur in the future is a real one. For them, and for the patients and customers they serve, preparing to handle these eventualities, even for a short period of time, will be necessary to insure that their patients are being properly cared for and that prescriptions are being distributed correctly. This is especially important when you consider that many of these erectile dysfunction medications are used for other health purposes, including the treatment of BPH (Benign Prostate Hypertrophy) and even cardiac problems.
Marzian’s mission to raise awareness of reproductive rights and the hypocrisy of politicians has also raised awareness of the multilayer nature of medicine and medical treatment, and made it very clear that these issues, and others as well, will continue to garner attention and controversy for years to come.
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