{"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&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:7578,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.boomantribune.com\\\/?op=displaystory;sid=2005\\\/10\\\/3\\\/223530\\\/406&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20190224000933\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.boomantribune.com\\\/?op=displaystory;sid=2005\\\/10\\\/3\\\/223530\\\/406&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 23:14:32&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 01:40:14&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:503}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 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23:14:47&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 01:40:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-18 01:40:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;},{&quot;id&quot;:7565,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.indystar.com\\\/apps\\\/pbcs.dll\\\/article?AID=\\\/20051005\\\/NEWS01\\\/51005006\\\/1006&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;https:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20120325033108\\\/http:\\\/\\\/www.indystar.com\\\/apps\\\/pbcs.dll\\\/article?AID=\\\/20051005\\\/NEWS01\\\/51005006\\\/1006&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 23:00:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-09 23:00:17&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:404},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>If this passes, I may want to <em>stop<\/em> admitting that, though I grew up in Alaska, I was <em>born<\/em> in Indiana&#8230;and most of my extended family on my dad&#8217;s side is still there.<\/p>\n<p>Indiana Republicans are working on a bill that will make it so that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boomantribune.com\/?op=displaystory;sid=2005\/10\/3\/223530\/406\" title=\"Booman Tribune: Unauthorized Reproduction bill has been drafted\">only legally married women will be allowed to reproduce<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\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 &#8220;by means other than sexual intercourse.&#8221;\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicoft.com\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/10\/04\/it-takes-two-baby\/\" title=\"The Republic of T: It Takes Two, Baby\">Terrance points out<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\n  You better <em>believe<\/em> gays and lesbians seeking to have children via artificial insemination, surrogacy, etc., will stopped in their tracks by this law.<\/p>\n<p>  What I don&#8217;t understand is why the law only addresses motherhood. Why isn&#8217;t it a class B felony under this law for a man to engage in &#8220;unauthorized reproduction&#8221;? You don\u2019t have to read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/redirect?tag=djwudicom-20%26link_code=xm2%26camp=2025%26creative=165953%26path=http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html%253fASIN=038549081X%2526tag=djwudicom-20%2526lcode=xm2%2526cID=2025%2526ccmID=165953%2526location=\/o\/ASIN\/038549081X%25253FSubscriptionId=02ZH6J1W0649DTNS6002\" title=\"Margaret Atwood: The Handmaid's Tale : A Novel\">The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/a> to envision what these folks have in store.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Just horrendous. This needs to get stopped, as soon as possible.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.republicoft.com\/index.php\/archives\/2005\/10\/04\/it-takes-two-baby\/\" title=\"The Republic of T: It Takes Two, Baby\">Terrance<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2005\/10\/04\/bizarre_proposed_ind.html\" title=\"Boing Boing: Bizarre proposed Indiana reproductive legislation\">Boing Boing<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p><ins>Update:<\/ins> The bill <a href=\"http:\/\/www.indystar.com\/apps\/pbcs.dll\/article?AID=\/20051005\/NEWS01\/51005006\/1006\" title=\"IndyStar.com: Legislator drops controversial plan\">has been yanked<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\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<p>  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<p>Heh &#8212; &#8220;more complex than anticipated.&#8221; In other words, she realized that word had gotten out just how insane this was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If this passes, I may want to _stop_ admitting that, though I grew up in Alaska, I was _born_ in Indiana&#8230;and most of my extended family on my dad&#8217;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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2042],"tags":[39,14],"class_list":["post-3527","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-links","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/michaelhans.com\/eclecticism\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3527","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"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}]}}