This is convincing proof that any dumbass can try to get a free ride after getting elected into office just by manipulating other dumbasses who are in that same office.

Will Mitch L. Cajayon sue Belo?

Caloocan Rep. Mitch Cajayon has filed House Bill 3417—An act providing for the mandatory pregnancy testing of all women of childbearing age who will undergo cosmetic procedures that are harmful to pregnant women and unborn children, and disclosure of the potential risks of such procedures.

This bill was the aftermath of an experience she had with the Belo Medical Group. She said that when she had undergone Laser Assisted Tumescent Liposuction in her abdominal area a few months before the mid-year elections last year at the famed Belo Medical Group, the physicians attending to her didn’t screen her for pregnancy.

She said that the physicians simply relied on her statement that she wasn’t pregnant. “I wasn’t sure about my condition, but they should not have taken my word for it. For precautionary measures they should have put me through a screening for pregnancy,” she related to us over lunch recently.

The procedure was done and over with, and she still didn’t know about her condition, that she was five weeks pregnant. When she learned about it, she went to her OB-Gyn who performed repeated ultra-sound tests to ensure the fetus was okay.

As a result, the congresswoman had to take nearly six months of rest in bed just to make sure she wouldn’t lose her baby.

While she admits her fault for being a bit reckless in declaring she wasn’t pregnant, she is also holding the Belo Medical Group responsible since she says that world-class standards require screenings for pregnancy among female patients who would want to undergo liposuction.

“While I have given birth to a seemingly healthy baby girl, the fear of certain life-threatening diseases that might later affect her, God forbid, does not escape me,” she told members of the Lower House during a privilege speech not long ago.

“Hence, I am urging everyone in this committee to support House Bill 3417. This measure seeks to ensure the well being of female patients and the unborn children against the potential risks of cosmetic procedures by requiring all cosmetic providers to subject women of childbearing age who shall undergo a cosmetic procedure that may be harmful to pregnant women and unborn children to a mandatory pregnancy testing. The bill also provides for mandatory disclosure of potential risks of cosmetic procedures thereby empowering women patients to make intelligent and informed decision with respect to a cosmetic procedure,” she added.

Meanwhile, the lady lawmaker is still studying the circumstances that had her going through an emotionally distressful experience. Whether she will file a complaint against Belo or not is a matter she is carefully studying. “I just hope we don’t end up in court,” she prays. “And it will all depend on the development of my child.”

What makes me angry is that, through her own admission, she knowingly put her fetus at risk and then turns around and tries to blame the medical group when it was solely her choice to go through with the procedure.

It's no wonder we have an exodus of medical professionals leaving Pinas while politicians stay and manipulate and enact laws that play in their favor.