New law will require marriage as a legal condition of motherhood

[animal_rescue]

Grybai...you owe me a new keyboard! I just about spit out my coffee! I never thought of the turkey baster idea....I figure maybe they want you to suffer through one loveless night with a man to be able to have a child....gee thats a lot better....

No no no, I like the turkey baster idea!! Just remember, never tell your kids where they came from.

[tatsxxx11]

Wow, I have to go back and read the bill more closely but on first glance, it seems some pretty chilling inferences may be drawn. What is the ultimate goal, to assure that only married couples be allowed to procreate? If they can prevent unmarried women from conceiving by artificial means, i.e. aritificial insemination, what is to say that in the future unwed women, wishing to conceive by conventional means, wouldn't have their births deemed illegeal? What is the difference??? Last time I checked, sperm banks, fertility clinics were not government run, I didn't need to ask my legislator..."May I?" ! What about couples where the husband is "handicapped," artficial insemination being their only recourse? What if the husband should die before conceiving and the women then chooses to become pregnant by aritificial insemination, with her husband's frozen sperm? Would she then be prohibited from doing so, based soley on the fact that she now is widowed? Why not make all couples, married or not, undergo the same intense scrutiny of the adoption process criteria before being allowed to have a child; not just single women! Well, two parents, being married, does not assure by ANY means, GOOD parenting!

I'm sorry "unauthorized reproduction," reproduction without state approval a crime? They can't be serious.

As 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."

[DJFyrewolf36]

The term "Unauthorized Reproduction" sounds kind of Nazi-ish and very scary to me.

tatsxxx11...You echoed my thoughts.

Grybai...I've known a few people that have actually TRIED the turkey baster approach...although I'm not sure as to the success of said endevor!

[tatsxxx11]

Yes, Nazi-ish. As well, eugenics came to mind, the policy of "selective reproduction," the policy of forced sterilization, practiced in many countries in the first half of the 20th century, including the U.S. In essence, selective breeding, culling out from the population, those deemed unsuitable to reproduce...criminals, the insane, the mentally retarded or emotionally challenged.

[lizbud]

Sen. Miller has withdrawn the proposed bill.She is a long time Republican
Senator here & I was flabbergasted when I first heard about this bill.On tonights news they said she has withdrawn her proposal because of the
"unforseen legal aspects of the bill". I think she must have eaten some bad
fish or something.

[tatsxxx11]

Maybe she had a moment of clarity in her thinking...one can only hope.

[lizbud]

Maybe she had a moment of clarity in her thinking...one can only hope.

Hope springs eternal.

I believe the intent was to find a way to prohibit gays and lesbians
(specifically) from using medical procedures to become pregnant.

[dukedogsmom]

This is one of the most assinine things I've heard lately. Pretty soon, we women will have to have permission from Congress just to go to the bathroom! Pretty soon, we'll have no rights at all. What are they going to do if the people aren't married, shove it back in?

[Cataholic]

Thank God I had Jonah in time! (and the old fashioned way, if you must know...)

[dukedogsmom]

That also happens to be the most fun way!

[carole]

I am a little scared and embarrassed to ask this, but what is the Turkey Baster Method? either I am an old naive woman, or this is just something us Kiwi's have never heard of? lol someone can always Pm me with the answer if it is not suitable to put here. I honestly have never heard this before.

[tatsxxx11]

"This is one of the most assinine things I've heard lately. Pretty soon, we women will have to have permission from Congress just to go to the bathroom! Pretty soon, we'll have no rights at all. What are they going to do if the people aren't married, shove it back in?"


LOL! Maybe, Val!!!

As for the turkey baster...

[Karen]

I sent you both a PM with the turkey baster details, as it doesn;t need to be posted publicly.

[caseysmom]

Carol...you have heard of american ingenuity

[finn's mom]

That would suck if that ever came to pass. Because, there are some days when I would rather have a child than a husband. At least, with the luck I'm having finding Mr. Right, anyway. But, I will say this, I'm not waiting around for a man, I want to have a child. I'll be 30 next year, and, I'd like to have a baby between 30 and 40. I'd hate to think I didn't have the option to be a single mother. Oy. I hopefully won't have to worry about it, and, will find my soulmate in the next ten years!