Banning same-sex parenting

[curiouslyadrift]

Via dailykos, I came across some interesting soon-to-be-proposed legislation. (pdfIndiana lawmakers plan to propose a bill that will limit any sort of artificial reproduction to married couples only. It requires that a gestational certificate be presented in order to receive sperm from a donor or in vitro fertilization or what-have-you. Only

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[blindman738]

Republicans don't really care if parents are competent - if they did, they'd understand the need to educate people on abortion and parenting rather than spend their time pushing abstinence.

They don't need to teach people to be competent parents. They could just give them a James Dobson book and learn how to bat their kids around. Now THAT'S responsible parenting!

[ameoblah77]

So people should use abortion as a form of birth control? Why not snip all men after recieving a bank of sperm in case in the future they want kids. That way pro-lifers and pro-choicers don't have to war with each other and females don't have to go through the trauma of making that decision.

[curiouslyadrift]

I don't even understand the thought process behind your comment, and as such am inclined to assume it's sarcastic.

But in case it isn't: is my last, largely irrelevant and probably unnecessary comment the only thing worth responding to? How about that entire law I posted about? And who's advocating abortion as a form of birth control? To suggest that that's its only purpose, or even primary purpose, is largely inaccurate. Abortion seems, at least to me, to be more of a last resort. Even if most people were deranged and irresponsible enough to consider using it as a primary means of birth control, it's far too expensive to do so.

Although, to be honest, there's a chance I'd support your idea of giving all men vasectomies if it was logistically feasible. But there's always the huge element of human error, and as such a high risk of sperm being lost, contaminated, misplaced, etc. And don't vasectomies affect testosterone levels?

[ameoblah77]

Not sure about the testosterone levels bit. I don't agree with banning abortion even though I'm pro-life. I think coat hangers is far less humane and crazy. I think the abortion war is pretty much unsolvable unless they come up with something completely different that both sides can agree to. As long as they stop the cells after conception are pro-lifers going to fight and as long as they fight and it interfere's with some sort of choice pro-choicers are going to fight. It seems that there is no middle ground. I may have misunderstood your comment, sorry. I heard about the law on another journal. They mentioned some sort of penalty to unwed mothers having the kids? I get weary of always hearing about women and their pregnancy/choice. Where's the men in all this? They say women have to have a consent to get one from a shrink? What about the man's consent who shares half the DNA? Once that baby pops out he has a financial responsibility that the law comes after him for. There's other issues too but it would be a long post. It seems laws

[frankmancini]

Actually, no. Your antichoice rhetoric is clearly untrue.

Oh "vasectomies affect testosterone levels?" Do you know what abortions can do to a woman? That they effect being able to get prego in the future. Hormones, Phsychology, it's just as bad if not worseThis has been a highly researched concept for many years, especially with the advent of the women's movement in the lat 1960's/early 70's. Abortions do NOT cause significant "phsychology" psychological or emotional turmoil for women that choose to have an abortion. Abortions performed in safe, legal, medical facilities do not affect future fertility in any way, shape or form. The ONLY possibility of an abortion affecting future fertility would be a massive uterine infection that was never treated. No woman has ever died from an aboriton, and less that one tenth of one percent of women have experienced infections due to an abortion

[frankmancini]

oh, and.. the sad thing about this legislation is that it will probably goddamn breeze right through the legislature.