Texas - DPS confiscating tampons in Senate Gallery?

[Slippers]

http://www.kutnews.org/post/texas-capitol-security-confiscating-tampons-maxi-pads

https://twitter.com/naraltx/status/355769602841649153

This is something I've just heard about now. Oh my God.

[Red Commissar]

Yeah, the Texas legislature instructed security to inspect bags after Republican members threw a shitfit when the abortion bill got destroyed in the last session by the intervention of pro-choice activists when they were able to stop the filibuster preventing the vote. When the special session started security started seizing items claiming people were trying to bring in jars of urine and shit to throw at the legislators, and they produced some jars to that effect claiming they were meant for this. They apparently included hygiene products in this fold too.

Considering how hysterically stupid Texas politicians are when it comes to the female body this isn't surprising.

[Sasha]

Obviously satire but yeah, not that far from the truth either;

July 11, 2013 TEXAS WEIGHS BAN ON WOMEN

POSTED BY ANDY BOROWITZ

AUSTIN (The Borowitz Report)—Republican lawmakers in the Texas State Senate are proposing a precedent-setting new bill that would make it illegal for women to live in the state.

Senator Harland Dorrinson, one of the many pro-life lawmakers backing the woman ban, crafted his bill after witnessing Senator Wendy Davis filibuster an anti-abortion bill last month.

“That was our moment to say, ‘Enough is enough,’ ” he said. “This comes down to a choice between life and women, and we choose life.”

Senator Dorrinson said his bill would call for a twenty-foot woman-proof fence to be constructed along the borders of the state.

“Women are great at talking, but not at climbing,” he observed.

But another G.O.P. state senator, Cal Jamson, believes that the total ban on women goes “too far” and is proposing a less draconian bill that would allow some women to remain in the state as guest workers.

“Texas needs women to cook, clean, and cheerlead,” he said. “If they show that they can do those things and stay out of politics, there could be a pathway to citizenship.”

Source: http://m.newyorker.com/online/blogs/borowitzreport/2013/07/texas-weighs-ban-on-women.html

[LOLseph Stalin]

As absurd as this is there's a solution... ;)1

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[BIXX]

Well, I wish I could believe this report was coming from something like the Weekly World News.

As it is, I'm laughing. This is ridiculous. I can't tell if it's a hoax or not. I just don't know what to make of it.

Can someone shed some light on this for me?

This is in regard to the ban on women article by the way.