Florida Democratic Representative Scott Randolph, from Orlando, suggested that if his wife’s uterus were incorporated, the right-wing lobby might drop the 18 anti-abortion bills filed last session. Speaker Dean Cannon asked him not to use such language on the floor of the House when teenage pages are present. “Uterus,” a word synonymous with womb, life and Catherine Durkin Robinson’s writing career, has since been seen on buttons, campaign literature and its own Facebook page (more than 4,200 fans!).
This article appears in Sep 22-28, 2011.
