Everyone out of the gene pool now

Posted October 5, 2005 at 10:38 EDT under news.

Is it any wonder I feel the need to author these rants?

Apparently, Indiana is trying to take the lead on modern eugenics with a proposed Assisted Reproduction bill. The intent? Make it illegal for a woman to seek pregnancy via any assisted means (translation: not by her husband, with him on top, as god intended). The bill seeks to have such pregnancies controlled and licensed in some Orwellian manner.

Indiana State Representatives quickly followed up with a bill that restricts the sale of turkey basters.

Just what problem are these shining wits trying to solve? Who can they possibly be trying to protect with such legislation? Have provisos been made for the inevitable unlicensed children? How does anyone expect to enforce such ridiculous laws? Are we prepared to put pregnant women in jail for, well, getting pregnant? Is this where people really want to go? Has anyone actually, you know, thought about this?

This is quite possibly the stupidest piece of legislation I've heard about in some time.

Actually, as far as I'm concerned, Margaret Atwood should sue these jokers for stealing the idea from The Handmaid's Tale. Come up with your own dystopian eugenics ideas, you losers!

Via Boing Boing.