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Doctor test labor pains!

Doctor Andrew Rochford and his wife had twins a few years ago. He says: ” When I stood there next to her, I thought I understood what she went through.”

In the Australian show ”What’s good for you” the doctor and host himself now go through “labor”. Electrical impulses will create contractions in the stomach that will be like real labor pains. To help - so everything will be correct - the doctor have a mother of four who voluntarily offered to be a guinea-pig. She makes a face when the machine starts. When the “contractions” starts she says: ” Yes, that’s how it feels”. Before she leaves the room she smiles to the doctor and says; “Men can’t do this so good luck”.

A midwife and a doctor is in place to monitor the experiment. They start with giving Andrew Rochford Braxton Hicks. “Oh God”, he says and starts to sweat. When the contraction is over he relaxes. “What a relief”, he says.

Just like with a ordinary first timer the contractions finally comes more often and lasts longer. Andrew Rochford have a harder time to deal with the pain and begs for something for the pain. he gets nitrous oxide (laughing gas). After about 3 hours he has 60 seconds long contractions and 60 seconds break in between.

– “How much longer?”, he asks.

– “A first timer usually have contractions for about 12 hours, so you have 9 to go”, the midwife answers.

That’s when Andrew Rochford had enough and stops the experiment.

– ” I thought I knew what you are going through. I don’t. All talk about men having a higher threshold for pain than women is a lot of bullshit. Women, you win”, he says.

Hahaha soooo funny.

This makes me so happy.

I’ve never known of a woman who hasn’t given birth claiming she knows what it’s like or bragging that she could easily take it.

AND THIS IS WHY I AM NEVER HAVING CHILDREN OH MY GOD

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Trigger Warning: Rape, pregnancy

Raging Grannies’ ‘Legitimate Rape’ Song Sends Some Harsh Words Todd Akin’s Way

The comment they’re referring to: “From what I understand from doctors, that’s really rare. If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down. But let’s assume maybe that didn’t work or something. I think there should be some punishment, but the punishment ought to be on the rapist.”

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• And this may be partially why: Scrambling to pass Virginia legislation “The Virginia General Assembly voted on hundreds of bills Tuesday, the midpoint of its 60-day session when the two chambers face a deadline to vote on their own pieces of legislation. Lawmakers introduced more than 2,500 bills this session.”
• Va. House GOP Muscles Through Abortion Curbs “A Republican supermajority has muscled two of the most restrictive anti-abortion bills in years through the Virginia House, including one that would all but outlaw the procedure in the state by declaring that the rights of persons apply from the moment sperm and egg unite.”
• Anti-abortion “personhood” bill advances in Virginia “Virginia lawmakers took a step toward outlawing abortion on Tuesday by approving “personhood” legislation that grants individual rights to an embryo from the moment of conception.”
• Virginia Ultrasound Bill Passes State Senate Vote, Heads To Governor Bob McDonnell’s Desk ”Women seeking an abortion in Virginia would be required to first have an ultrasound and be given the opportunity to view an image of the fetus under legislation passed Wednesday by state lawmakers.”
• Virginia Ultrasound Bill: Republican Lawmaker Calls Abortion ‘Lifestyle Convenience’ “A top Republican legislative leader in Virginia described abortion as a ‘lifestyle convenience’ during the floor debate on a controversial measure to require trans-vaginal ultrasounds before a woman can get an abortion.”
• Virginia set to remove limit on monthly gun purchases “Virginia is set to remove a limit of one handgun purchase per month that has been on the books for 19 years, one of a host of pro-gun measures moving through the legislature.”
• Mike Williams: A step backward on guns “Somewhere, gun traffickers are smiling. The gun lobby is ecstatic. New Yorkers? Not so much. The repeal of Virginia’s one-handgun-a-month law would complete the gutting of a measure that was a documented success before state lawmakers began chipping away at it.”
• Virginia Lawmakers Want Ignition Interlocks Installed For First-Time DUI Offenders “Opponents argued that poor people would have a tough time coming up with several hundred dollars to pay to use the device for a minimum of six months.”
• Virginia school district ponders banning cross-gender dress “A Virginia school district is considering banning cross-gender dressing in a move proponents said aims to protect students from harassment, but which civil liberties and gay rights groups said would amount to an assault on free speech.”

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Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir, Prime Minister of Iceland

• Iceland’s first female prime minister
• The world’s first openly gay head of state

(Source: fuckyeah-nerdery)