If they could ban it, they would. A reader writes:
In your "The Thing About Mary" post, you asked what the Christianist answer was to artificial insemination by single and/or lesbian women. Back in 2005, there was a bill proposed in the Indiana legislature that would "bar any doctor from assisting in a pregnancy through intrauterine insemination, donation of an egg, donation of an embryo, in vitro fertilization and transfer of an embryo, and sperm injection without making a number of ‘determinations’ about the ‘suitability of the candidate’." Women seeking artificial insemination would be required to be married to a man.
It was withdrawn from the committee fairly quickly, thankfully, but then in early 2006, a similar bill was proposed in Virginia.
The standards that the theocons apply to gays should apply to straights as well. The only reason they don’t is because they could never win majority support; but gays are such a tiny minority the Christianists can vent their anger at the general culture by beating up on them alone. Hence the apoplexy over gays getting married but relative indifference to divorce and single mothers. If a child needs a mother and a father, shouldn’t divorce be illegal for couples with kids?
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