"It's only those crunchy nutbars in Indiana" they said.
"It's only an isolated incident" they said, "not a legislative agenda."
And then I said, "Bullshit!"
Guess what? There are crunchy nutbars in Virginia too! And somehow they've developed the notion that the mechanisms of women's fertility are somehow their fucking business. Wait, or is that "somehow they've developed the notion that the mechanisms of women's fertility are somehow the state's fucking business?" Well, you get the idea.
HOUSE BILL NO. 187 Offered January 11, 2006 Prefiled January 2, 2006 A BILL to amend the Code of Virginia by adding a section numbered 54.1-2403.4, relating to prohibition on the provision of certain intervening medical technology to unmarried women.---------- Patron-- Marshall, R.G. ---------- Committee Referral Pending ---------- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Virginia:
1. That the Code of Virginia is amended by adding a section numbered 54.1-2403.4 as follows:
§ 54.1-2403.4. Prohibition on the provision of certain intervening medical technology for unmarried women.
No individual licensed by a health regulatory board shall assist with or perform any intervening medical technology, whether in vivo or in vitro, for or on an unmarried woman that completely or partially replaces sexual intercourse as the means of conception, including, but not limited to, artifical insemination by donor, cryopreservation of gametes and embryos, invitro fertilization, embryo transfer, gamete intrafallopian tube transfer, and low tubal ovum transfer.
Isolated incident, my fanny.
Via the shiny happy sparkly new Pandagon.
Posted by binky at January 6, 2006 11:09 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Reproductive Autonomy