"Unauthorized reproduction bill" - affects GLBT community in IN

There is a thread in GD about this: http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x4963321

This is a disgusting piece of potential legislation in IN, folks. I'm not even from Indiana but I think that we need to work on this!!

I have emailed this to the NOW chapters in IN. Can anyone help me get this to other groups: PFLAG, NARAL, and any other group that could help pressure the IN legislature to get this bill killed?

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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.

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.ph...

get the fuck out of my life, you assholes

and express just that?

LOL.

We need to get on this and squash it ASAP. I am not from Indiana. Never even been there but we cannot give an inch to these nutcases.

in order to get acquitted????...I mean, how is anyone to know HOW a person got pregnant, absent PRIVATE medical records???

This is sick, and you'd think the media would be all over it, seeing as it relates to their favorite subject, S-E-X....

I am speechless as well. Does NO ONE have a way to stop these theofascists from introducing this kind of legislation?

holy crap. literally.

Can anyone in their fucking right mind support crap like this?! If shit like this starts getting passed, the War on Iraq will look like a picnic compared to what will go down here...

Cause if there isn't I am not sure this will stand up to the federal Constitution.

The sad part of all this is the motivation is RW fear and loathing of paying welfare to children and un-wed mothers.

Don't you see? This is a threat to any woman - regardless of race, color, creed or sexual orientation - who wants to have children without the benefit of a man or marriage!

We have to DO something!! This cannot stand!

which is actually part of the Republican agenda in support of Patriarchy.

Baby-making slaves who supply the cannon fodder for the endless "War on Terra."

like "in vitro fertilization, sperm donation,
and egg donation"

The arguments given against it still apply, but I wouldn't be surprised if it passed. The government and religion want to regulate (Stop) these industries.

they are attacking the docs with this, causing them to become social police.

We need more info. Just who is the Doofus who drafted this piece of @@@@?

If so, that is a HUGE issue for the GLBT community.

I'm sick of these fuckers trotting out the "gay" issues all the time to invigorate their bigoted base. It's got to stop.

How do we get the stupid motherfuckers (right-wing voting assholes) that fall for this shit to STOP voting against their best interests?

As Malloy says, "Got to stop the QUEERS!"

It's an affront to any woman who wants to be a mother without having to have the husband. It's just a few steps from this to having laws that mandate that if a woman is married, then she must have children.

and don't have to be married.

This law focused on methods that require doctors or some outside help. That's why it's so dangerous because they could actually succeed. If they were going after unmarried couples they might have constitutional problems.

Unmarried pregnant women will not be charged with 'unauthorized gestation' if they conceive through intercourse. They will merely not be permitted to be artificially inseminated. However, if a woman is pregnant through means OTHER than intercourse (read turkeybaster) she will be charged with a crime.

Class B misdemeanor? WTF does that mean?

So what do these wonderful "Christians" want an "unlawful" mother to do? ABORT the baby? Doesn't that go against everything they supposedly stand for?!

Motherfuckers!!!! I hate these right-wing "Christian" assholes so much! :nuke:

PFLAG Bloomington
PFLAG Fort Wayne
PFLAG Hammond
PFLAG Huntington
PFLAG Indianapolis
PFLAG Lafayette/ Tippecanoe County
PFLAG Michigan City / Indiana Dunes
PFLAG Muncie
PFLAG Seymour
PFLAG South Bend/ Michiana
PFLAG Richmond/Whitewater Valley

Fort Wayne Area NOW IN0035
Greater Lafayette NOW IN0075
Hanover College NOW IN0120
Indianapolis NOW IN0130
Muncie/Delaware County NOW IN0170

good freaking lord--have these people finally lost their minds?????

These types of people scare me. They are talking about making it a misdemeanor if women break this law!

We have to stop this - NOW. Right here, right now.

There is a line that they have crossed, dwickham, and we can't stand silent. These folks are bigots - both against gays and against anyone who isn't just like they are.

I am sending this to everyone I can think of but I'd love to have some help.

once people turn off their brains, replace it with faith-based initiative from a bible beating bastard preacher, I do not believe that they have a mind of their own anymore.
ergo, there is nothing to lose.

These folks are dangerous. They have to be stopped before they get this type of crap passed.

But ya know what? Who CARES? We were makin' babies long before all the techno BS - and we can do so REGARDLESS. Turkey basters R us!

ALL this is REALLY gonna do is inconveniences str8s. So... they don't LIKE it? Let `em vote the asshats OUT of office!

:kick:

Still working on this.

We have to get the word out, folks. Please help!

Thanks.

Now - we need to turn this outrage into ACTION!

Yes - I'm am so glad that we are getting these little cockroaches out into the open!!!

:bounce:

southern Indiana is really more like the southern red states than not.

But this piece of hate filled, bigoted, human rights violation masquerading as a piece of legislation is an abomination.

Repug Patricia L. Miller, nurse, and right wingnut politician is behind this ugly thing. She has been hand picked by former shrub buddy mybitchmitch daniels.

http://www.howeypolitics.com/main.asp?SectionID=1
>Commerce Secretary Patricia Miller: The Vera Bradley CEO from Fort Wayne came within an eyelash of becoming lieutenant governor.<

BOYCOTT Vera Bradley hand bags and luggage!!!

Interesting read:

http://www.infopt.demon.co.uk/nazi.htm