{"id":3527,"date":"2005-10-05T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2005-10-05T16:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/05\/want-a-child-better-get-married\/"},"modified":"2019-12-18T16:28:42","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T00:28:42","slug":"want-a-child-better-get-married","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/2005\/10\/05\/want-a-child-better-get-married\/","title":{"rendered":"Want a child? Better get married…"},"content":{"rendered":"

If this passes, I may want to stop<\/em> admitting that, though I grew up in Alaska, I was born<\/em> in Indiana…and most of my extended family on my dad’s side is still there.<\/p>\n

Indiana Republicans are working on a bill that will make it so that only legally married women will be allowed to reproduce<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n Republican lawmakers are drafting new legislation that will make marriage a requirement for\u00a0 motherhood in the state of Indiana, including specific criminal penalties for unmarried women who do become pregnant “by means other than sexual intercourse.”\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

As Terrance points out<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\n You better believe<\/em> gays and lesbians seeking to have children via artificial insemination, surrogacy, etc., will stopped in their tracks by this law.<\/p>\n

What I don’t understand is why the law only addresses motherhood. Why isn’t it a class B felony under this law for a man to engage in “unauthorized reproduction”? You don\u2019t have to read The Handmaid’s Tale<\/a> to envision what these folks have in store.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Just horrendous. This needs to get stopped, as soon as possible.<\/p>\n

(via Terrance<\/a> and Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n

Update:<\/ins> The bill has been yanked<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n A controversial proposed bill to prohibit gays, lesbians and single people from using medical procedures to become pregnant has been dropped by its legislative sponsor.<\/p>\n

State Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis, issued a one-sentence statement this afternoon saying: \u201cThe issue has become more complex than anticipated and will be withdrawn from consideration by the Health Finance Commission.\u201d\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Heh — “more complex than anticipated.” In other words, she realized that word had gotten out just how insane this was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

If this passes, I may want to _stop_ admitting that, though I grew up in Alaska, I was _born_ in Indiana…and most of my extended family on my dad’s side is still there. Indiana Republicans are working on a bill that will make it so that only legally married women will be allowed to reproduce.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2042],"tags":[39,14],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}