Helen Kendrick Johnson

OHIO STATE Senator Nina Turner is the first recipient of this website’s Helen Kendrick Johnson Award. Johnson was one of many nineteenth century and early 20th century female anti-suffragists who believed women should not be given the vote or hold major office. The Helen Kendrick Johnson Award goes to a woman who proves that Mrs. Johnson was right.

Turner, a Cleveland Democrat, recently proposed a bill in the Ohio senate that would require men to see sex therapists and obtain notarized affidavits attesting to impotence in order to receive prescriptions for Viagra. The reason for the bill is not to protect the health of men or to reduce use of the potentially harmful drug. It is a spiteful response to a Ohio bill limiting abortion rights. In Turner’s view, abortion is a matter of “reproductive health” and any bill protecting the unborn is an assault on women’s health. Thus she has responded with a bill pertaining to the reproductive organs of men.

Turner told Business Week:

We want to make sure that men, vulnerable, fragile men, who are not capable of making decisions for themselves, understand all of the side effects and the implications of these types of drugs.

Turner is a living, breathing argument for the all-male franchise. The more she speaks, the more she damages the reputation of women everywhere.

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Hurricane Betsy writes:

“Turner, a Cleveland Democrat, recently proposed a bill in the Ohio senate that would require men to see sex therapists and obtain notarized affidavits attesting to impotence in order to receive prescriptions for Viagra.”

Pfffft. Using Viagra is just plain stupid. It’s like putting a new flagpole on a decrepit, rotting old building. If you have to raise an erection artificially, it means you don’t need to have sex.

Laura writes:

It’s a drug for a sick society. Sexual freedom has not brought more sexual pleasure.

Catherine H. writes:

We don’t need Mrs. Turner to provide us with a reason women should never have been enfranchised–our crippled and radically feminist society provides us with enough evidence already. That said, Mrs. Turner’s gesture is laughable in its pettiness.

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