GOP BANNING LESBIAN AND ATHEIST PREGNANCIES IN INDIANA?

The KKK may have been founded as a prank in Pulaski, Tennessee in 1866 (and re-founded on some granite hill 10 miles from Atlanta in 1915) but it was often in Indiana that the KKK was strongest. It's peak was probably the election of lunatic Edward Jackson as Indiana Governor in 1924, although Butler, Indiana is still the national headquarters of the American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan. How much has Indiana changed since the KKK heyday? Well, where Indiana once echoed with vicious right-wing attacks on "'Niggers,' Catholics, Jews, dope, bootlegging, graft, night clubs and road houses, violation of the Sabbath, unfair business dealings, sex and scandalous behavior," these days there is a new victim they can vent their rage on with impunity. It's October 2005 (not 1005) and legislation has been introduced in the Indiana legislature that would prohibit gays, lesbians and single people in Indiana from using medical science to assist them in having a child. (Science... the mortal enemy of the George Bush's version of the GOP.)

This is the direct consequence of allowing right-wing maniacs to get control of a secular political party (the Republicans now) and allowing that party to attain power. The monstrous and bigoted piece of legislation has the support of the ultra-bigoted Senator Patricia Miller, the GOP chairloon of the Health Finance Commission where the legislation is currently being considered. The right wing maniac, Miller claims that assisted pregnancy is totally unregulated. The bill 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. For example, the modern-day KKK fascists are demanding that women seeking treatment would have to provide a certificate of satisfactory completion of a non-medical assessment required under the Republican bill. Among the determining factors is a requirement that the women be married to a person of the opposite sex.  The assessment would contain a description of the family lifestyle and automatically exclude lesbians. Women would also have to provide proof that they have participated in faith-based or church activities, which seems to indicate that atheists or secularly-oriented citizens should be discouraged from reproducing. The committee vote is October 20.
 
Although Planned Parenthood of Indiana president Betty Cockrum calls it "chilling and government intrusion on a person's private life," I call it a perfectly logical extension of George Bush's presidency. It can only get worse.