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Indiana proposes bill requiring would-be assisted-fertility recipients to have parental qualifications approved by the state

Surprise, surprise! The criteria by which applicants are evaluated are to include marriage to a member of the opposite sex and participation in religious services.

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[marphod.livejournal.com]

It is a bill that would make an unenforcable law.

Ignoring first amendment rights issues (of which the bill certainly would be in violation), and equal protection (marrige to 'opposite sex', as opposed to 'same sex'), it falls into violation of privacy rights, the state mandating right of access to health care and impinges on parental rights.

If it were to make it out of committee (I wager it won't) and through a floor vote (I'd be suprised if it were ever added to the agenda), and got signed, and the state court system didn't overturn it, it would fail in the Supreme Court, even in the Roberts court.

Dozens of equally stupid bills are proposed every year. its just a media circus that caused this one to get any notice.

(See similar circuses for the girl who got kidnapped in Aruba 150-odd days ago, vis a vis the otehr dozens of kidnappings that occured since then with missing victims. )