Call it a match made in news parody heaven: Michigan lawmaker Lisa Brown being banned for saying "vagina" during a house debate on abortion, and Jon Stewart waiting with open arms. We saw this coming when the news broke last week, and though the Daily Show bit isn't without its hiccups (we could do without the Margaret Thatcher joke), sometimes you just need Stewart to show how absurd it is to ban the word "vagina" during an anti-abortion debate:
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