Retired attorney, practicing in California for 20 years. Incumbent state representative. Barbieri owns a catering business and the “Vap-It” electronic cigarette store in Post Falls. In his two terms in the House, he’s been an outspoken tea party supporter and opponent of Medicaid expansion and civil rights protections for gays. Barbieri is board chairman of the Open Arms crisis pregnancy center and clinic in Coeur d’Alene. A home-schooling advocate, he’s called on Christians to pull their children out of Idaho’s “Godless” public schools.
Recording of the Idaho House State Affairs Committee hearing on February 23, 2015. Rep. Vito Barbieri asks Dr. Julie Madsen a bizarre question during testimony on HB 154, legislation to put politicians in between women and doctors by restricting abortion access in Idaho.
Barbieri: You mentioned the risk of colonoscopy - can that be done by drugs?
Madsen: Mr. Chairman, Representative Barbieri - it cannot be done by drugs. It can however be done remotely, where you swallow a pill and this pill has a little camera and it makes its way through your intestines, and those images are uploaded to a doctor who is often thousands of miles away who then interprets that.
Barbieri: Follow up - can this same procedure then be done in a pregnancy? Swallowing a camera and helping the doctor determine what the situation is--
Madsen: Mr. Chairman and Representative - it cannot be done in pregnancy, simply because when you swallow a pill, it would not end up in the vagina.
Barbieri: Fascinating, that certainly makes sense, Doctor.
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