Didier Grumbach, the federation president, told The Associated Press that it was impossible to legislate body weight.
Right now, our national focus is on Trump, Clinton, and Sanders, but it is your state assembly representative who might be legislating your body next session.
For a few minutes last week, Paul Ryan, the new Speaker of the House of Representatives, sounded like someone who hoped to push the chamber closer to its role as a legislative body capable of legislating and of getting past the speed bumps (or potholes) of disruptive insiders like the Freedom Caucus and outsiders like Senator Ted Cruz.
After all, if the major purpose of a legislative body is to legislate, what use is a politician who prefers to canvas his district rather than perform his electoral duties?
This year contained the usual litany of indignities against women: rape and rape apology, violence and harassment, powerful men legislating our bodies or treating them like public goods.
However, with the imminence of the [Digital Economy Bill], which is set to target "non-conventional sex acts", I think it's crucial to understand how quickly this policing can flip on its own head, legislating the bodies and acts of those it deems as "non-normative" – and that's usually involving women's pleasure.
However, with the imminence of the [Digital Economy Bill], which is set to target "non-conventional sex acts", I think it's crucial to understand how quickly this policing can flip on its own head, legislating the bodies and acts of those it deems as "non-normative" – and that's usually involving women's pleasure.
In simple terms, in a world where progressives want government to change things and conservatives favor the status quo, a legislative body that makes legislating difficult will be a conservative force.
American women have known this for years, and regularly flood the social media feeds of politicians who have attempted to legislate their bodies and take away their reproductive rights with detailed descriptions of what their vaginas are up to (the most recent victim was Mike Pence, and with a US president-elect who refers to "blood coming out of her wherever", long may it continue).
