Idaho lawmaker asks if woman can swallow camera for gynecological exam before medical abortion

[kpete]

BOISE, Idaho — An Idaho lawmaker received a brief lesson on female anatomy after asking if a woman can swallow a small camera for doctors to conduct a remote gynecological exam.

The question Monday from Republican Rep. Vito Barbieri came as the House State Affairs Committee heard nearly three hours of testimony on a bill that would ban doctors from prescribing abortion-inducing medication through telemedicine.

Dr. Julie Madsen was testifying in opposition to the bill when Barbieri asked the question. Madsen replied that would be impossible because swallowed pills do not end up in the vagina.

The committee approved the bill 13-4 on a party-line vote. Barbieri, who sits on the board of a crisis pregnancy center in northern Idaho, voted in favor of the legislation.

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/health/293718211.html

[FSogol]

1. What if they put the camera in her ear?

No?

My gawd, that level of stupidity is incredible.

[krispos42]

18. Only if she had had aural sex the night before

Ba-dum tsss!

[etherealtruth]

31. OMG, I am a little ashamed to admit this ...

Your post truly made me laugh out loud

[krispos42]

44. He he he...

Thanks!

[calimary]

60. DUzy!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Fumesucker]

2. Best laugh I've had all day...

Not the results of the vote, the out and out idiocy of the question.

[BigDemVoter]

57. Same Here

How somebody can be that stupid AND be elected to public office. . . . Oh, I'm not shocked at all. It's depressing but laughable.

[hifiguy]

3. How can someone be this damned stupid

and remember to breathe?

[Liberal Veteran]

12. I blame the Medulla Oblongata. -nt

[madokie]

37. Perfect example of why its good that one doesn't have to remember to breath

or tell their heart to beat

[gratuitous]

45. Never mind breathing

How can someone be this damned stupid and think he knows enough to draft legislation related to medical treatment for women?

[Sheepshank]

4. So either he thinks oral sex is the same as vaginal sex for the purposes of procreation...

or he's still working under the toddler to 5 year old thinking that there is a "baby in her tummy". Either way, WTF are people thinking when they vote for these idiots.

[postulater]

5. Didn't grow up on a ranch, I guess.

[PADemD]

19. Ranch?

Maybe

Vito Barbieri (born October 21, 1951 in Bexar County, Texas)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Barbieri

[postulater]

24. Ha, that Wikipedia update was fast.

Growing up on a farm or ranch, you'd probably learn a thing or two about animals orifices and how they fit together and what goes in which hole.


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[mercuryblues]

46. Whoever did this

deserves an award.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Barbieri

Education[edit]

Barbieri earned his law degree from Western State University College of Law.

Although not confirmed, it is believed that Barbieri has never taken a biology class in his life since he recently asked a physician if women can swallow a camera that will perform a gynecologic exam. It's believed that Barberi was disheartened to learn that women cannot magically expel items they eat out of their vaginas.

[PADemD]

6. Someone put it on his Wiki page.

On February 23, 2015 Barbieri learned that if a woman swallows a pill it will not end up in her vagina.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Barbieri

[Aerows]

10. That's absolutely PRICELESS

[bigwillq]

14. BWAH!

[hifiguy]

15. There is no better weapon than mockery

and public ridicule when faced with this kind of weaponized stupidity.

[arcane1]

32. I love the internet!!

[Hekate]

43. Barbieri also enjoys an avocational interest in gynecology, obstetrics, and gastro-enterology!!!!

Oh my sweet, sweet Goddess of All.

Education

Barbieri earned his law degree from Western State University College of Law.
Barbieri also enjoys an avocational interest in gynecology, obstetrics, and gastro-enterology
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Barbieri

[Shrike47]

7. It would if she wanted it to, wouldn't it?

Women's bodies have these special ways of doing things, like shutting down conception during a real rape.

[JHB]

20. Besides, who knows how lady-plumbing works?

Just like the tides! Nobody knows for sure!

Obligatory for these Poe's Law times.

[postulater]

25. Well, he's not a scientist.

[onyourleft]

39. That is a...

...certainty. I cannot believe how so many people in this country have so little knowledge of human anatomy and biology. It is absolutely unbelievable.

[Liberal Veteran]

8. Next up: Women should hold pill-sized camera between knees to prevent pregnancy. -nt

[nolabear]

9. When a man and a woman love one another very much

He takes her out to dinner and feeds her cabbage from a special cabbage patch and nine months later she...oh, never mind. It's not even funny.

[one_voice]

11. Sure, if Barbieri woud allow a camera up his ass to look for his brain...

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

28. If you stuck a flashlight up his ass it would shine out his nose.

Conversely, if you had him swallow a flashlight, a bright glow would emanate from his asshole.

[smirkymonkey]

55. Winner!

LOL!

[procon]

13. Finally, that explains the mysterious phrase,"pea-brained"

His mother undoubtedly consumed enormous quantities of peas during pregnancy which resulted in an overflow from the stomach directly into the uterus and thus straight to the empty cranial cavity of the developing fetus which had an unfortunate effect on this poor fellow's intelligence factor.

Now watch Vito pour Pepto Bismol into his ear to sooth his upset tummy.

[Baitball Blogger]

16. He must have gotten confused from reading Deep Throat.

[JHB]

17. I see a booming market for my model anti-corruption legislation...

...calling for regular trams-rectal ultrasounds for legislators.

Almost 2 years to the day ago...
http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=337934

[damnedifIknow]

21. Ohhhhhhhhhhhhh

“Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.”

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[msanthrope]

22. Poor Mrs. Barbieri. nt

[progressoid]

23. Oh sweet jeebus.

[GreatCaesarsGhost]

26. It would work if it was a legitimate camera.

[msanthrope]

53. Okay--I laughed....nt

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

27. Well, of course.

If you swallow something it just goes into this big hollow area. There are no organs in there; it's just a big empty sack made of meat. So whatever you ingest will just rattle around for awhile and fall out whatever opening is closest. Didn't you people know that?

[ND-Dem]

36. lolol

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

29. Plese tell me he didn't really mean this and has another explanation for what he was getting at

If he meant this then I'm really ever more worried for the country. He's just one hopeless idiotic asshole. What worries me are the thousand of voters who send these neanderthals into office. Do we really live in a nation of morons?

[mountain grammy]

30. and it's men like this who feel qualified to make women's decisions for them

[haikugal]

33. Exactly MG!! N/T

[jtuck004]

34. And later, you just pull out the tampon and it falls right into your hand.

Conveniency.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

38. You could eat the tampons.

They'd find their way to the right place eventually.

[jtuck004]

40. What bothers me the most is that these people are just right across the border from us,

making decisions about people's lives.

And they let them.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

41. That's the sad thing, isn't it?

The state legislatures in particular are just crawling with nincompoops like that.

[ND-Dem]

35. I had to laugh. These are our leaders. "swallowed pills don't end up in the vagina" lol.

[Hekate]

42. When Barbieri was 3 y.o. his mommy said baby bro grew "in her tummy," & never bothered updating...

...that information as he matured. So he apparently still thinks babies grow in mommies' tummies.

[jmowreader]

47. You have to see this...

https://storify.com/CdAPressNews/vito-lights-up-twitter

Yeah, we're having a field day with this one.

[tclambert]

48. So he probably thinks women can't get pregnant unless they swallow.

[phylny]

49. Wait...what?

All this time I thought I was peeing and pooping THROUGH my uterus into my vagina.

How many holes are DOWN THERE anyway?

[AlinPA]

50. Again, another day another crazy GOP statement.

[madamvlb]

51. I can't stop laughing...

[KamaAina]

52. O. M. G.

[catbyte]

54. Completely offended by those arrogant dipshits and them thinking they can tell me what to do.

[undeterred]

56. Because the baby is growing in Mommy's tummy.

[calimary]

58. Yeah! Let's hear it for the party of "get the gummnt off yer back"!

But then again, you KNEW they had to find someplace else to put it, didn't they? If they "get the government off your back" and it still needs to go somewhere anyway, well, why not shove it up a woman's vagina? Or, if not there, then certainly down her throat!

Yay - sure sounds like the way to go for me.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

59. And his wife doesn't let him know he's had the wrong doorway for years

Maybe she doesn't want to procreate with this genius.