{"id":12964,"date":"2016-02-15T20:05:08","date_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:05:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12964"},"modified":"2016-02-15T20:06:28","modified_gmt":"2016-02-15T20:06:28","slug":"take-a-bow-sen-marzian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12964","title":{"rendered":"Take a bow, Sen. Marzian"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marzian-800x430.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-12967\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-12967\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marzian-800x430-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"marzian-800x430\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marzian-800x430-300x161.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marzian-800x430-768x413.jpg 768w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/marzian-800x430.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Lou Marzian is my newest political hero.<\/p>\n<p>She is a Kentucky state senator who&#8217;s seeking to make a point about male legislators getting into women&#8217;s private lives.<\/p>\n<p>Marzian, a Louisville Democrat, has introduced legislation in Frankfort that would require men seeking to have notes from their wives if they want to\u00a0obtain prescriptions for medication to correct erectile dysfunction.<\/p>\n<p>Can there be a stronger statement than that?<\/p>\n<p>Marzian&#8217;s legislation likely won&#8217;t ever see the light of day. I do admire her guts, though, in making a statement on behalf of women who believe the government should not dictate to them on one of the most deeply personal issues possible: whether to take a pregnancy to full term.<\/p>\n<p>In so many cases we have men making these decisions. Sen. Marzian&#8217;s bill makes a significant statement on behalf of women who have grown weary of men deciding how women should control their bodies.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary Lou Marzian is my newest political hero. She is a Kentucky state senator who&#8217;s seeking to make a point about male legislators getting into women&#8217;s private lives. Marzian, a Louisville Democrat, has introduced legislation in Frankfort that would require men seeking to have notes from their wives if they want to\u00a0obtain prescriptions for medication &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=12964\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Take a bow, Sen. Marzian<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13,14],"tags":[5967,5968,5966],"class_list":["post-12964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-medical-news","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-erectile-dysfunction","tag-kentucky-state-senate","tag-mary-lou-marzian"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12964"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12969,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12964\/revisions\/12969"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}