Progressive Primer, Session Two
Another of those things that progressives find relevant (nay, necessary) for discussion:
Wednesday's Courier-Journal reported that an Indianapolis Republican legislator planned to introduce a comprehensive ban on "assisted reproduction" physician care for prospective single parents and homosexual couples.
Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis, said the state does not have regulations on assisted reproduction.
She said the requirements should be similar to those for adoption, but acknowledged that the legislation would be "enormously controversial."
"Our statutes are nearly silent on all this. You can think of guidelines, but when you put it on paper it becomes different," she told The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne.
Miller is chairwoman of the Health Finance Commission, a panel of lawmakers that will vote Oct. 20 on whether to recommend the legislation to the full General Assembly.
The bill defines assisted reproduction as causing pregnancy by means other than sexual intercourse, including intrauterine insemination, donation of an egg, donation of an embryo, in vitro fertilization and transfer of an embryo, and sperm injection.
It requires "intended parents" to be married and states that an unmarried person may not be an intended parent.
A doctor cannot begin an assisted reproduction technology procedure that may result in a child being born until the intended parents have undergone an assessment and met the bill's requirements.
Read this story (limited shelf-life on C-J stories)
Reproduction bill targets gays, singles: Married couples could use science
In case you were wondering...that is NOT a progressive idea.
And just so you'll know, the state's constituency for progress killed this one in its crib, as related in Thursday's C-J.
Things are changing. Like it or not.
Wednesday's Courier-Journal reported that an Indianapolis Republican legislator planned to introduce a comprehensive ban on "assisted reproduction" physician care for prospective single parents and homosexual couples.
Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis, said the state does not have regulations on assisted reproduction.
She said the requirements should be similar to those for adoption, but acknowledged that the legislation would be "enormously controversial."
"Our statutes are nearly silent on all this. You can think of guidelines, but when you put it on paper it becomes different," she told The Journal Gazette of Fort Wayne.
Miller is chairwoman of the Health Finance Commission, a panel of lawmakers that will vote Oct. 20 on whether to recommend the legislation to the full General Assembly.
The bill defines assisted reproduction as causing pregnancy by means other than sexual intercourse, including intrauterine insemination, donation of an egg, donation of an embryo, in vitro fertilization and transfer of an embryo, and sperm injection.
It requires "intended parents" to be married and states that an unmarried person may not be an intended parent.
A doctor cannot begin an assisted reproduction technology procedure that may result in a child being born until the intended parents have undergone an assessment and met the bill's requirements.
Read this story (limited shelf-life on C-J stories)
Reproduction bill targets gays, singles: Married couples could use science
In case you were wondering...that is NOT a progressive idea.
And just so you'll know, the state's constituency for progress killed this one in its crib, as related in Thursday's C-J.
Things are changing. Like it or not.
posted by All4Word at 7:56 PM
1 Comments:
That's right, Ceece. But also know that the point isn't the absurdity so much as it is the thought process. The classifiying of fellow residents of this state as "other" is the antithesis of progressivism.
Either you naturally align with a progressive view, which relies on having principles in the first place, or you are lost when making any decision or taking a view on any political issue.
It is the search for truth, not simply the search for ephemera that supports your opinion, that defines a progressive world view.
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