IN lawmakers propose criminalizing unwed motherhood.

[BurtWorm]

:eyes:

http://majikthise.typepad.com/majikthise_/2005/10/how_about_immac.html

How about immaculate conception?

Amanda of Pandagon points to a disconcerting bit of news out of the Hoosier State:

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."

I've got to nominate Amanda's tagline for some sort of blogospheric distinction. She sums up the legislative intent as follows: Indiana's legislature is considering a law mandating that a man better get laid if a baby is being made.

Indeed. Argh.

[sam sarrha]

1. if the guy puts the sperm in a jar by himself.. that is just WRONG..!!!

[Daphne08]

2. Nathaniel Hawthorne would be proud!

:sarcasm:

[Whoa_Nelly]

3. More BS attempts to debase women and send them back to the 1800s

When will there be enough outraged women to stand united and to proclaim loudly enough, "We're mad as hell, and we're not taking this bullshit anymore!"

Goodgod...Only in America. Women is most of the Westernized world are treated more fairly, more equally than those within the borders of our "progressive" nation. Thanks to people such as those who are attempting to get this latest edition of "Hate Women" legislation in place, the US presents more an more to the global community as a nation as stupid as its current leader.

[bloom]

4. And they want to check out your religion ->

http://www.heraldtimesonline.com/stories/2005/10/05/news.new.1128485445.sto

"According to the Associated Press, the bill defines assisted reproduction as causing pregnancy by means other than sexual intercourse, including intrauterine insemination, donation of an egg, donation of an embryo, in vitro fertilization and transfer of an embryo, and sperm injection.

It then requires "intended parents" to be married to each other and says an unmarried person may not be an intended parent.

A doctor cannot begin an assisted reproduction technology procedure that may result in a child being born until the intended parents have received a certificate of satisfactory completion of an assessment required under the bill. The assessment is similar to what is required for infant adoption and would be conducted by a licensed child-placing agency in Indiana.

The required information includes the fertility history of the parents, education and employment information, personality descriptions, verification of marital status, child care plans and criminal history checks. Description of the family lifestyle of the intended parents also is required, including participation in faith-based or church activities.
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The bill does not apply to assisted reproduction in which the child is the genetic child of both of the intended parents - for example, the sperm is from the father and the egg is from the mother, the AP said. But married couples that need one or the other would still have to go through an assessment process and establish parentage in a court.
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She (Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis) acknowledged such a law would bar single people from using methods other than sexual intercourse but said "all the studies indicate the best environment for a child is to have a two-parent family - a mother and a father."

[skypilot]

8. This almost sounds like a joke or...

...an urban legend.

Only women who are married will be considered for the "gestational
certificate" that must be presented to any doctor who facilitates the
pregnancy.

On edit: Meant to respond to the original post.

[bloom]

5. I don't think it outlaws

getting pregnant in the "usual" way - but the bill "would prevent gays, lesbians and unmarried individuals from using scientific methods to reproduce".

[cantstandbush]

6. How about criminalizing "unwed fatherhood" instead? Will stop it

right soon and will in time eliminate "unwed motherhood."

[bloom]

7. Single (and/or gay) men would not be allowed to be fathers, either

from what I understand.

[Kikosexy2]

9. Republicans...

the party of evil lunatics...good grief...what has become of this world??

[ticapnews]

10. Yes, yes, Godwin's Law and all...

but Himmler would be impressed by this.

Placing restrictions on "intended parents" using family history, religion and economics? Requiring marriage to be a parent and making it criminal to get pregnant outside of marriage? Even the Nuremburg Laws didn't go that far...

Just one more step closer to the eventual final solution to the liberal question in America.

http://www.thirdreich.net/Thought_They_Were_Free.html