Wednesday, October 05, 2005

Indiana Wants to Regulate Who Can Conceive!!!!!

The IndyNews story is here, and the law's PDF is here, but here's the lowdown on this absolutely FASCIST move by the GOP: Repub lawmakers are drafting new legislation that will make marriage a requirement for motherhood in the state of IN, including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do become pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse." According to a draft of the law, every woman in IN seeking to become a mother thru assisted reproduction therapy like in vitro fertilization, sperm/ egg donation must 1st file for a "petition for parentage" in their local probate crt. Only women who are married will be considered for a "gestational certificate" that must be presented to any doctor who facilitates the pregnancy. The "gestational certificate" will only be given to married couples that successfully complete the same screening process currently required by law of adoptive parents. As the draft of the law now reads, an intended parent "who knowingly or willingly participates in an artificial reproduction procedure" w/out crt approval "commits unauthorized reproduction, a Class B misdemeanor." The criminal charges will be the same for physicians who commit "unauthorized practice of artificial reproduction." The change in IN law to require marriage as a condition for motherhood and criminalizing "unauthorized reproduction" was introduced at the IN's Health Finance Commission on Sept 29 and a final version of the bill comes up for a vote at the end of Oct. Welcome to Orwell's 1984. Will they sit on the edge of your bed and watch, too?
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