highplainsdem
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Wed Oct-05-05 11:31 PM
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GOOD NEWS! - Bill To Limit Reproductive Rights For Gays, Singles Dropped |
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http://www.wcpo.com/news/2005/local/10/05/gay_ban.htmlINDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- A state senator has changed her mind about sponsoring a bill that would prohibit homosexuals and unmarried people in Indiana from using medical science to assist them in having a child.
Senator Patricia Miller of Indianapolis says the issue has become more complex than she thought. So she is withdrawing it from consideration.
Miller said earlier this week that state law does not have regulations on assisted reproduction and should have similar requirements to adoption in Indiana.
She acknowledged when she proposed it that the legislation would be "enormously controversial."
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Wed Oct-05-05 11:32 PM
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1. You're damn skippy it was "controversial"-- as in |
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Edited on Wed Oct-05-05 11:35 PM by Lex
unconstitutional and completely unworkable.
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Wed Oct-05-05 11:35 PM
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2. a mean spirited no brainer to start with. |
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Wed Oct-05-05 11:48 PM
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7. yes indeed. Plus the equal protection clause of the 14th Amendment |
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would come into play.
I mean, first of all, what was going to be the "test" for whether the woman was straight, gay, or bisexual? Is this bill encouraging gay women to have sham marriages so they can get artificial insemination and have a baby?
Straight single women wouldn't be able to choose to have a baby with artificial insemination? What about widowed women, or divorced women?
The bill was so incredibly stupid and unworkable that I can't even begin to think of all the problems with it.
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Wed Oct-05-05 11:38 PM
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3. LOL, I guess she didn't figure anyone would actually READ her |
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stupendously stupid, bigoted, ignominious bill.
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Wed Oct-05-05 11:40 PM
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4. "the issue has become more complex than she thought" |
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Wed Oct-05-05 11:41 PM
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5. Well, a small victory for the good guys |
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along w/the espionage probe in the White House and the rules for detainee treatment in the Senate, this hasn't been such a bad day.
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Wed Oct-05-05 11:41 PM
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6. My teenage daughter went nuts when I told her... |
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she called her friends and told them.
Geez, when will people get a brain :eyes:
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Thu Oct-06-05 08:31 AM
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Thu Oct-06-05 08:37 AM
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9. That link no longer works -- here's the Indianapolis Star story: |
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http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051006/NEWS02/510060442/1008IndyStar.com Local News Politics October 6, 2005 Assisted-reproduction bill dropped By Mary Beth Schneider
A controversial proposed bill to prohibit gays, lesbians and single people from using medical procedures to produce a child has been dropped by its legislative sponsor.
State Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis, issued a one-sentence statement Wednesday saying: "The issue has become more complex than anticipated and will be withdrawn from consideration by the Health Finance Commission." Miller said later that the issue of regulating assisted reproduction, just as the state regulates adoption, is multifaceted. She said there was not enough time for the committee -- a panel of lawmakers that meets when the Indiana General Assembly is not in session to discuss possible legislation -- to work through all of the issues involved by its next meeting Oct. 20.
Miller had planned to ask the committee to vote at that meeting on whether to recommend the proposed bill to the full legislature when it meets in January.
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Thu Oct-06-05 08:39 AM
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10. Ah some light at least. :D |
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