(Indianapolis, Indiana) Legislation has been introduced in the Indiana legislature that would prohibit gays, lesbians and single people in Indiana from using medical science to assist them in having a child.
The bill has the support of Senator Patricia Miller, the chair of the Health Finance Commission where the legislation is currently being considered.
Miller says that assisted pregnancy is totally unregulated. The bill would bar any doctor from assisting in a pregnancy through intrauterine insemination, donation of an egg, donation of an embryo, in vitro fertilization and transfer of an embryo, and sperm injection without making a number of "determinations" about the "suitability of the candidate".
Women seeking treatment would have to provide a certificate of satisfactory completion of an assessment required under the bill.
Among the determining factors is a requirement that the women be married to a person of the opposite sex. The assessment would contain a description of the family lifestyle and automatically exclude lesbians. Women would also have to provide proof that they have participated in faith-based or church activities.
A judge could not establish parentage of a child born through assisted reproduction without the assessment certificate and a separate certificate from the physician involved.
Courts would be prohibited from granting a petition to establish parentage if the parents have been convicted of crimes such as murder, reckless homicide neglect of a dependent felony battery, or have a drug conviction.
Planned Parenthood of Indiana president Betty Cockrum calls it chilling and government intrusion on a person's private life.
The Health Finance Commission will vote October 20th on whether to recommend the legislation to the full General Assembly.
The article was taken from a link that Oberon posted about gay homophobia and here is a link: [url="http://www.365gay.com/newscon05/10/100405birthBan.htm"]Pregnancy Ban
Anybody else think this is a blatant dieregard of the constitution by forcing women to prove they have participated in faith-based or church activities?
And what about the Athiests and Agnostics?
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Hey maybe we could start a petition thing on that one e-card website Oberon also posted. Oberon if you can dig up that link please post it because I am too much of a lazy ass to find it myself lol 
Hopefully when Bush gets out of office.
Geez...when is the government going to stop trying to trample all over our civil rights?
lol not even the constitution is constitutional (its 100% true)
Yes, but the first time someone tries to enforce it, they're going to have major lawsuits on their hands.
It's not even close to being Constitutional.
Merci Oberon,
The problem is that enough politicians support it to almost ensure the laws passing
I don't see that this has a snowballs chance in the Sahara of passing. It would have every women's group, gay group, separation of Church and State group, the ACLU, Planned Parenthood... heck, you name it.. against it.
It's definitely a violation of civil rights. Since when has the government been allowed to decide if ANYONE has the right to breed? Bah! This is what we get when you allow the Neo-cons too much power.
Anyway... here's the link to The Petition Site