I, too, am surprised that any legislator had the nuts to put this before the legislature.
However, the spotlight in the article on religion is a bit disingenuous, and certainly designed to garner the reaction that it seems to have. Every adoption agency also does a "family lifestyle" evaluation prior to adoptions, and there are plenty of athiests, mixed-religion and non-churchgoing families with adopted children... I can name you one, personally. By that bar, this is not unusual. The article makes it sound like "if you don't participate in faith-based activities, you don't get fertility treatment," and that is clearly not the case. Google News for other articles on this.
I definitely agree that this is really bad news, and a harbinger of horrid things to come. On the other hand, I do harbor a personal belief that ALL parents should have some basic qualifications before being allowed to become pregnant by ANY means. Of course, trusting the State to arbitrate that would be worse than not doing it at all, so it's probably DOA. But, we'd certainly have many fewer social problems in America, and the world, if it wasn't quite so easy for people to crank out offspring by the dozens, largely consequence-free...
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Date: 2005-10-05 03:41 pm (UTC)However, the spotlight in the article on religion is a bit disingenuous, and certainly designed to garner the reaction that it seems to have. Every adoption agency also does a "family lifestyle" evaluation prior to adoptions, and there are plenty of athiests, mixed-religion and non-churchgoing families with adopted children... I can name you one, personally. By that bar, this is not unusual. The article makes it sound like "if you don't participate in faith-based activities, you don't get fertility treatment," and that is clearly not the case. Google News for other articles on this.
I definitely agree that this is really bad news, and a harbinger of horrid things to come. On the other hand, I do harbor a personal belief that ALL parents should have some basic qualifications before being allowed to become pregnant by ANY means. Of course, trusting the State to arbitrate that would be worse than not doing it at all, so it's probably DOA. But, we'd certainly have many fewer social problems in America, and the world, if it wasn't quite so easy for people to crank out offspring by the dozens, largely consequence-free...