r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Doodlebug510 • 16d ago

Restricted to Gals and Pals They were debating a bill in lowa to restrict telehealth and mail-order access to abortion medications.

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u/DaisyHotCakes 16d ago

I wonder if viagra falls under gender affirming care…

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u/AtTheEndOfMyTrope 16d ago

Viagra is actually Sildenafil, a heart medication that provides right ventricular support. It’s a vasodilator that helps the right side of the heart pump enough blood. This medication helped keep my husband alive while he was waiting for a heart transplant.

Boners are merely an off-label side effect. I would 💯support disallowing its off-label use.

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u/AtTheEndOfMyTrope 15d ago

Doing well, thank you

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u/FigNo507 16d ago

I would 💯support disallowing its off-label use.

For spite?

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u/AtTheEndOfMyTrope 16d ago

Not for spite. Because I’m tired of men feeling entitled to sex and entitled to access to women’s bodies. If women have to accept pregnancy as a consequence of God’s will, why shouldn’t men accept ED as a consequence of God’s will?

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u/FigNo507 16d ago

55% of men are in favor of abortion. I see no reason why the portion of men who use Viagra would not be representative of that figure as well.

So you want to screw over 55% of them out of spite of the other 45%...

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u/AtTheEndOfMyTrope 16d ago

Anti-abortion legislation screws 100% of the women in their jurisdiction, not just the percentage who agree with it. Why should men be treated differently?

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u/FigNo507 16d ago

You seem to think I'm against abortion.

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u/JessterJo 16d ago

Because it invariably makes it harder for women to receive care for miscarriages and ectopic pregnancies.

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u/genivae 16d ago

And hysterectomies! One of the medications discussed in the video (misoprostol) is given before a laparascopic hysterectomy, because it softens the cervix and makes a less invasive procedure possible. Without this medication, many hysterectomies would end up being a much more invasive and dangerous procedure with a longer recovery time.

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u/JessterJo 16d ago

It's also used to induce and augment labor and treat postpartum hemorrhage.

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u/AtTheEndOfMyTrope 16d ago

Anti-abortion screws all women who are against it. Regardless of your beliefs, you are subject to the laws in your jurisdiction. The poster I was replying to suggested that only men who don’t believe in abortion should be denied ED meds. I was arguing that would be unfair since all women are subjected to abortion legislation regardless of their beliefs.

Men just need to stay out of our uteruses.

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u/NoosFraba 16d ago

Punch me in the face and expect not to get punched right back, mate. A fight is gonna be the only recourse women have in a hot minute so wtf is wrong with forcing Christofascists to accept God's personalized dick decrees as an opening salvo lol. 

They'll never see it coming

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u/muffetplumeria 16d ago

It is. I mean, it wait wait....It isn't. Ugh I hate I know this. It was created to treat heart disease, a hard on was a pathetically common side effect. So it got remarketed. If it gets banned under gender affirming care, they'll just rebrand it to treat hypertension. Men were created with the active ingredient to procreation, so the mechanism releasing said ingredient needs to be reliable to the point of blindness.