The Digital Journal – Detroit – House Republicans have barred Democratic Rep. Lisa Brown from speaking on the floor of the Michigan state legislature because she said the word “vagina” during a heated debate over abortions.

CBS News reports the Michigan lawmaker was blocked because of the remark she made while speaking against a controversial bill that would restrict abortions after 20 weeks. Brown’s “vagina” comment came at the end of the speech she delivered on Wednesday: “Finally, Mr. Speaker, I’m flattered that you’re all so interested in my vagina, but ‘no’ means ‘no.'”

Brown, in her speech, argued that the abortion regulation bill would violate her Jewish faith that permits therapeutic abortions when the mother’s life is at risk. She said: “I have not asked you to adopt and to adhere to my religious beliefs. Why are you asking me to adopt yours?”

The anti-abortion law, however, was passed on a 70-39 vote.

New York Daily News reports that a spokesman of House Speaker James Bolger, said in a statement that the lawmaker was not allowed to speak on a school employee retirement bill on Thursday becasue she had allegedly “failed to maintain the decorum of the House of Representatives.”

According to New York Daily News, Democratic Rep. Barb Byrum (D-Onondaga) was also blocked from addressing the Republican-controlled legislature on Thursday. The lawmaker was prevented from introducing an amendment to the abortion bill that would ban men from getting a vasectomy unless they could provide proof it was a medical emergency. She said: “If we truly want to make sure children are born, we would regulate vasectomies.”

Brown and Byrum were barred from speaking on the legislature’s final day of session before its summer recess.