Prompted by the passage of an “informed consent” abortion law in Kentucky, Rep. Mary Lou Marzian, D-Louisville, filed a bill this week that would require a patient to have two office visits with a doctor before erectile dysfunction medication could be prescribed. In addition, the bill would allow the drug to be obtained only by married men who swear on a Bible that they’ll use the drug exclusively when having sexual relations with their spouse. 
 
 “I’m just sick of them… I’ve had it with 80 men telling women what to do,” Marzian tells Insider Louisville. “It’s just to make a point. Should we have a bunch of politicians untrained in health care telling women what to do? So I thought I’d just tell them what to do.” 
 
 The current session of the General Assembly has been full of abortion bills again this year, with the informed consent bill requiring an extra visit with a doctor 24 hours before an abortion procedure finally passing both chambers and being signed into law. Another bill requiring a trans-vaginal ultrasound before the procedure is currently making its way through the state Senate. 
 
 Marzian admits her bill itself is tongue-in-cheek, but says, “It’s also to demonstrate how ridiculous it is for elected government officials to be meddling in private health care decisions… they’re so obsessed with uteruses and ovaries and women’s health, but not concerned about the 9 percent cut to mental health services.” 
 
 Her bill specifically would require: 
 
 A man to have two (2) office visits on two (2) different calendar days before the health care practitioner prescribes a drug for erectile dysfunction to him; 
 
 A drug to only be prescribed for erectile dysfunction to a man who is currently married; 
 
 A man to produce a signed and dated letter from the man’s current spouse providing consent for a prescription for erectile dysfunction; 
 
 A man to make a sworn statement with his hand on a Bible that he will only use a prescription for a drug for erectile dysfunction when having sexual relations with his current spouse. 
 
 Marzian hopes some of her female colleagues will join her as co-sponsors of the bill and says she would love for the Health and Welfare Committee to give it a hearing. She even says she may file similar amendments to the seven anti-abortion bills that have been filed this session, such as enacting penalties for having unprotected sex, or requiring a 24-hour waiting period and two visits with the victim of mass school shootings before being able to buy a gun. 
 
 The spokeswoman for Republican Floor Leader Jeff Hoover did not return an email requesting comment on Marzian’s bill. 
 
 Of the specific details about erectile dysfunction drugs in her bill, Marzian added, “Of course some of them would say, ‘I don’t know about having to get that.’” ||||| Call it the "What's good for the goose is good for the gander" bill. 
 
 A female Kentucky state legislator has introduced a bill that would require men who want to use erectile dysfunction drugs like Cialis, Viagra or Levitra to get a note from their wife first. Then they'd have to make two visits to a doctor and promise to only take the pills before sex with a spouse. 
 
 Kentucky Rep. Mary Lou Marzian (D) introduced the bill on Thursday as a way to protect men's health and ensure they are informed about a drug with potentially dangerous side effects, according to the Louisville Courier-Journal. 
 
 "I want to protect these men from themselves," said Marzian, a retired nurse. 
 
 Marzian told The Huffington Post that her proposed law is really a tongue-in-cheek way of pointing out how anti-abortion advocates want to involve the government in people's bedrooms. She said her legislation shows government needn't be involved in personal choices, "whether it be about abortion, erectile dysfunction or blood transfusions for Jehovah's Witnesses." 
 
 "Six anti-choice bills have been introduced since the beginning of the year," Marzian pointed out. 
 
 One of them, signed by new Republican Gov. Matt Bevin, is an informed consent bill that requires women to visit with a health care provider before getting an abortion, according to WDRB.com. 
 
 Marzian told the station that the government should insert itself into the personal, private decisions of men "since we have already inserted it into our personal, private decisions of women." 
 
 She added: 
 
 "We are very 'family values' in the Kentucky General Assembly -- they are all awash in Christian, family values, so that's why I put that part in there that (erectile pills) can only be used in a marital relationship." 
 
 Marzian conceded her bill is unlikely to pass. She said she may try to get a hearing for it anyway. 
 
 "Republicans, tea party members and some Democrats use wedge issues like abortion as a way to get reelected," she said. "They say they're about protecting the family, but they won't vote to regulate booster seats, to enforce smoking bans or for early child education." 
 
 Since introducing the legislation, Marzian said she has gotten a lot of responses from people who say they they appreciate her point. "I also get messages from people who say, 'Why are you wasting your time on this when there are more important things to worry about -- and that's my point!" 
 
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– If a bill introduced in Kentucky this week becomes law, men seeking Viagra or other erectile dysfunction drugs would be required to get a signed note from their wife and swear on a Bible they would only use the drugs during sex with their spouse, the Courier-Journal reports. The men would also be required to prove they're married and visit the doctor twice before to getting the drugs. "I want to protect these men from themselves," says Rep. Mary Lou Marzian, who introduced House Bill 396. "This is about family values." It's also about seven anti-abortion bills that have been introduced in the Kentucky legislature this session, according to Insider Louisville. "I’ve had it with 80 men telling women what to do,” Marzian says. "So I thought I’d just tell them what to do.” One anti-abortion bill signed into law this month requires women to get counseling 24 hours prior to an abortion. Another currently in the senate would require women to get a trans-vaginal ultrasound first. Marzian, a nurse, says it's "ridiculous" that government officials are getting involved in these kinds of decisions. "Do we really want a bunch of legislators interfering in private, personal medical decisions?" she asks the Courier-Journal. Marzian knows her "tongue-in-cheek" bill is unlikely to pass, the Huffington Post reports. She's also received a lot of messages from people wondering why she's wasting her time on something like this when there are more important problems facing the state. "That's my point," she tells HuffPo.