New law will require marriage as a legal condition of motherhood

[Selteri]

http://www.boomantribune.com/?op=displaystory;sid=2005/10/3/223530/406

I found this on the internet and hope that it's just one of those rumors and not a fact, yet I can't actually say I'd be unsurprised by such.

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Republican lawmakers are drafting new legislation that will make
marriage a requirement for motherhood in the state of Indiana,
including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do
become pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse."

According to a draft of the recommended change in state law, every
woman in Indiana seeking to become a mother throu gh assisted
reproduction therapy such as in vitro fertilization, sperm donation,
and egg donation, must first file for a "petition for parentage" in
their local county probate court.

Only women who are married will be considered for the "gestational
certificate" that must be presented to any doctor who facilitates the
pregnancy. Further, the "gestational certificate" will only be given
to married couples that successfully complete the same screening
process currently required by law of adoptive parents.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

1. What are the chances of this passing? n/t

[Pirate Smile]

2. This would be struck down immediately.

[Selteri]

3. Saw it and just was commenting, it never hurts to be aware

of what they are going to try to push through next.

[Pirate Smile]

7. Oh, sure. I just meant that there is no way in hell a court would

let it stand.

[havocmom]

4. WWJMHD?

What would Jesus' Mother have done?

Seriously, that has to be a joke, only married mothers... doesn't it?

We gonna stand for stoning in America? I don't think so.

[jwirr]

12. Joseph would have placed her on Dem donkey

and rode away to Canada!

[Jackpine Radical]

16. ...or at least to Canaan.

[Angry Girl]

5. And I'm assuming the spouse must be of opposite gender....

There's no other purpose for this, me thinks. Prejudiced bastards.

[htuttle]

6. "Gestational certificates"

Don't they have something like this in China? Like a coupon book or something?

[splat]

8. Wow, a License to Breed! More new taxes! n/t

[Pirate Smile]

18. A license to breed and Congressional approval to die. The Republican

campaign motto for 2006.

[Agnomen]

9. This has to be a bad joke

[mnhtnbb]

10. Since when did being married make one

a good mother?

I doubt anyone has any data demonstrating that married mothers are less likely to be abusive of children.

Frankly, I think parenting should require a license--regardless of whether one is married or not. I've said so for years. You have to have a license to drive a car, sell booze, do nails, hair, and what else ad infinitum? Raising a well-adjusted, productive, contributing member of society ought to require some demonstration of competency.

But this is stupid.

[Spinzonner]

11. Republican morphing into the Nazi Party is happening

faster than I anticipated.

[seejanerun]

13. What would they do, put people in jail?

Just what we need, more prisoners.

[Tsiyu]

14. Control freaks

Really.

[HawkerHurricane]

15. What are they going to do?

Mandatory abortions for unwed mothers?

This is either fake, or a really stupid idea.

[Jackpine Radical]

17. Maybe mandatory adoption.

Or maybe we could grow the confiscated offspring to harvesting age on special organ-donor farms.

[ladjf]

19. I'd like to presume that you are joking. But, I fear that you aren't.

[Boo_Radley]

20. Anti-gay

It looks like it's all about hatin' the gays . . .

http://www.wthitv.com/newsdet.asp?id=9766
http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/news/editorial/12819815.htm
http://www.culturekitchen.com/archives/003478.html

They're trying to prevent gay couples from being able to have surrogates carry for them.

[Demeter]

21. I Want An IQ and Altruism Test for Public Office!

no more nutcases on the school boards, legislatures, or courts! And no psychopaths, sociopaths, borderline personality disordered, or otherwise morally incapable people.

[alarimer]

22. But what about fatherhood?

It says nothing about that. I guess they are talking mostly about artificial insemination but what about all the sperm donors?? Shouldn't they be married too???

[Coastie for Truth]

23. Require Constitutional law on the Bar Exam - and as part of annual CLE

Right now to be a lawyer - a law student much take 2 hours (a 2hours/week, one semester course), and maybe, just maybe (subjects on the Bar Exam are randomized), a 45 minute essay question (out of 6 to 16 hours of essay questions). That's it. That's all that is required from the "Guardians" of our Constitution.

They have to take 3 hours of "Professional Ethics, Malpractice Avoidance, and Equal Opportunity" every year - but no annual requirement of Constitutional Law. That's for the "Guardians" of our Constitution.

Result - law that clearly violate our fundamental document - the Constitution -- even the Bill of Rights of the Constitution and the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution -- and such doctrines as the prohibition on establishments of religion, and the guarantees of free exercise of religion and free speech and equal protection of the law and due process of the law.

It is about time we require more "Constitutional" knowledge on the part of our body politic and our lawyers.

[FVZA_Colonel]

24. So how long until the "Republic of Gilead?"

n/t.

[FVZA_Colonel]

25. THE BILL HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN

http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051005/NEWS01/51005006

:party:

[Selteri]

26. Not surprised but happy, I hope it's held against them though in elections

[Boo_Radley]

27. You'd think they'd learn.

"The issue has become more complex than anticipated . . . "

Is "forsight" scratched out of all the dictionaries in the GOP?

Iraq: The issue has become more complex than anticipated.
The Budget: The issue has become more complex than anticipated.
Leaking Plames ID: The issue has become more complex than anticipated.
Foreign relations: The issue has become more complex than anticipated.
Tax cuts: The issue has become more complex than anticipated.
Prisoner interrogation: The issue has become more complex than anticipated.

Why don't these guys try anticipating things from time to time? It seems like all they do is knee-jerk reactions to everything they come across, and then act like they're totally shocked that the issue has become more complex than anticipated.