ALERT: Unauthorized Reproduction bill [View All]

We just got a heads up about an upcoming article in NUVO by the author of the article.

Please note that the article is in draft form, it hasn't been published, and that the author herself raised alarm bells by alerting Indiana GLBT activists (that's how bad this draft bill is).

A draft of the legislation which, among other things, bars unmarried
people from having children by articifial means is here:

http://www.in.gov/legislative/interim/committee/prelim/HFCO04.pdf

Here's a draft of the story that is running this week. It will be my cover story in two weeks also. Feel free to pass this info along to every one you know. This has to be stopped!!!

Keep fighting the good fight!

Laura

The Crime of "Unauthorized Reproduction"
New law will require marriage as a legal condition of motherhood

By Laura McPhee

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.

As it the draft of the new law reads now, an intended parent "who
knowingly or willingly participates in an artificial reproduction
procedure" without court approval, "commits unauthorized
reproduction, a Class B misdemeanor." The criminal charges will be
the same for physicians who commit "unauthorized practice of
artificial reproduction."

More at the Indiana Forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=151x3281#3287