Is a law against "Unauthorized reproduction" allowed under the Consitution

[papau]

From the GOP in Indiana:
http://www.in.gov/legislative/interim/committee/prelim/HFCO04.pdf

While the Indiana "Unauthorized reproduction" bill is still in draft form and is not submitted/final in any way, I was wondering if our new USSC would find such a bill "unconstitutional"? Or is privacy gone from the interpretation of the 4th Amendment once Roberts/Miers reach the Court?

Can one make marriage a requirement for unfettered motherhood in the state of Indiana, with motherhood for unmarried women who do become pregnant "by means other than sexual intercourse" (defined as penetration of a sex organ of one into the receptive sex organ of another) having a class B misdemeanor problem.

Is it permitted under the US Constitution to require woman seeking to become a mother through assisted reproduction therapy such as in vitro fertilization, sperm donation, and egg donation, to first file for a "petition for parentage" in their local county probate court. Or the idea that only a women married to a man can get a "gestational certificate" that must be presented to any doctor who facilitates the pregnancy. Further, the "gestational certificate" will only be given to married couples that successfully complete the same screening process currently required by law of adoptive parents.

Can we have a law that covers the "intended" parent "who knowingly or willingly participates in an artificial reproduction procedure" without court approval, who thereby "commits unauthorized reproduction, a Class B misdemeanor." Can we have a law that lays criminal charges against any physicians who commit "unauthorized practice of artificial reproduction" ?

From the GOP in Indiana:
http://www.in.gov/legislative/interim/committee/prelim/HFCO04.pdf

[starroute]

1. What about the 14th amendment?

No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.

[sinkingfeeling]

2. Personally, I think someone should call the men in the white coats

to lock up the idiots in Indiana.

[papau]

3. Then again, my parents did warn me against "Unauthorized reproduction"

:-)

[kestrel91316]

4. Is this from The Onion??? This can't possibly be real, right?

When I first saw the "unauthorized reproduction" part, I assumed maybe it meant something boring like copyright law.

OMFG. Orwell has got to be turning in his grave.

[papau]

5. The Onion has a hard time being stranger than a GOP legislator!

:-)

[SongOfTheRayne]

8. Orwell was a genius

EVERYTHING from 1984 is happening! (I know...Im kind of obsessive about it...but it's IMPORTANT!) Marriage restrictions, war for peace= war is peace, freedoms taken away to protect freedoms = freedom is slavery, arrests without charges, mistreatment of prisoners, war for financial motives, two minutes hate= uniting the people against black and white villains, PROLEFEED= drowning out dissent with oversimplified good vs. evil slogans, changing statistics to fabricate an appearance of improvment.

DOUBLETHINK= accepting 2 mutually exclusive things as true, for instance, the Patriot Act takes away the freedom patriots died for, CRIMESTOP=Stopping people from asking questions by labeling it as unpatriotic, and the ONE thing that I thought set us apart was the vaporizations....naive, naive me! We have those too! People dissappearing and not a word said about it! WE HAVE GHOST PRISONERS!

Orwell was truley a genius..."Modern man has performed the essential act of Jonas...allowing himself to be swallowed..."

[johnlal]

6. This is what Conservatives hate

When you take an argument that is the bedrock of a hot conservative issue and take it to its extreme so that it doesn't sound like a good idea anymore.

ARGUMENT: The Constitution does not mention "reproductive rights" or "right to privacy". Therefore, government is free to ban abortions.

EXTREME: Therefore government can dictate the time, place and manner of impregnation.

How do you think infertile Republicans in Indiana will take this?

[papau]

7. :-) Bill to limit reproduction procedures for gays, singles dropped

Bill to limit reproduction procedures for gays, singles dropped

INDIANAPOLIS -- A proposed bill that would prohibit gays, lesbians and single people in Indiana from using medical science to assist them in having a child has been dropped by its legislative sponsor.

State Sen. Patricia Miller, R-Indianapolis, issued a one-sentence statement Wednesday about her decision to drop the proposal.

"The issue has become more complex than anticipated and will be withdrawn from consideration by the Health Finance Commission," she said.

Miller said earlier this week that state law does not have regulations on assisted reproduction and should have similar requirements to adoption in Indiana.

But Betty Cockrum, president and CEO of Planned Parenthood of Indiana called it government intrusion.

"It feels pretty chilling," Cockrum said Tuesday.

http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=3942770

[zonmoy]

9. one could always hope

for a necktie party for repuke legislators.