KOS: Unauthorized Reproduction bill in Indiana.... LICENSE TO PROCREATE?!

[BloodyWilliam]

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/10/3/213554/300

Yeah, this is terrifying.

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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.

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It's a pretty transparent attempt to prevent lesbian couples from having children. Disgusting.

[QuettaKid]

1. "Handmaid's Tale" anyone....? nt.

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[montanacowboy]

2. HAAAAAA

what do you expect from the home of the KKK?

[texastoast]

3. Oh good. At least it didn't come out of Texas

I would be very happy to have someone else's state take some heat for a while.

[Ready4Change]

4. Get Mother Mary up on these charges, dagnabit!

After all, SHE became pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse" didn't she?

[MADem]

5. Ooooooooh, I LIKE the way you THINK!!!!!!!!

And that should be the retort!!! Brilliant!!!!!

[walkon]

8. True

But wasn't she married?

[LisaLynne]

10. Actually, not when the pregnancy occured.

If I remember correctly, Joseph was thinking about not marrying her because he thought she had been with another man.

[tocqueville]

15. besides that she wasn't MARRIED !!!! when pregnant...

Joseph had accepted her as a virgin maiden

Matthew 1 gives the account of the virgin birth of Jesus from the viewpoint of Joseph, betrothed to Mary, and before they were married, she was discovered to be pregnant. Joseph planned to dismiss her without public scandal. The punishment was to be stoned to death!. Only then did God reveal to Joseph that the child was conceived through the Holy Spirit, in fulfillment of the prophecy that a virgin would conceive and bear a son who would be called Emmanuel (Isa.7:14).

Luke 1 gives the events from the viewpoint of Mary. An angel appears to her while she was a virgin betrothed to Joseph, and informed her that she would bear a son conceived by the Holy Spirit, who would be called "the Son of the Highest". There is no thought of any sexual relations, and the emphasis is upon the miraculous virginal conception Jesus.

PATRICIA MILLER IS A JESUS KILLER

[Democrats_win]

6. Ever since raygun: Out of the boardroom and into the bedroom.

Remember to tell your silent partner, Uncle Sam, good night before going to bed.

[nini]

7. delete

. never mind..

[MrModerate]

9. Are they planning to extend these restrictions to . . .

Unmarried women who become pregnant by sexual intercourse? What an incredibly insane, invasive, arrogant, prurient, and ultimately futile endeavor.

The only good that can come out of this is to demonstrate how wicked these tinpot eugenicists are.

Turns my stomach.

[readmoreoften]

14. No, they aren't.

Unmarried women pregnant by intercourse will not be charged with a crime. Basically, only lesbians trying to get pregnant without intercourse will be charged.

[bloom]

16. I expect there could be

single, heterosexuals who would want an anonymous donor - to be a parent without marriage - for whom this would also be criminal.


And even married people would be screened to see if they might be ? suitable parents before they would be allowed a scientific procedure. Their church-going would be checked.

[cloud_chaser1]

11. Well, here's the dilemma

How do you have a law like that where it is illegal to have a baby out of wedlock and still maintain a prolife position.

If they allow that illegal baby to be born, are they not aiding and abetting a felony? That means everybody in the neighborhood goes to jail.

[Leftist_Warrior]

12. OMG!

That's absolutely INSANE!

Indiana has a lot of Democratic legislators, I don't know how something like this could get by. If it does, well, I'm puking. I guess the Democrats in Indiana act more like repukes than Progressives.

[tocqueville]

13. Virgin Mary would never had made the requirements

she wasn't really married to Joseph but "bethroted"

the Holy Spirit was heavily involved in the insemination (of course Evangelicals deny that but plenty of people believe it).

With their poverty the couple would never have been eligible for adoption

the senator should be therefore renamed Patricia Herodes Miller

[kilaana]

17. Excellent point!

I can see the headlines now:

"Indiana rules the birth of Jesus a Class B Misdemeanor".

[Holly_Hobby]

18. The original

license to procreate is called a marriage license.