Wednesday October 5, 2005

Indiana is considering a bill banning “unauthorized reproduction.”

Let’s have that sink in to your consciousness for a moment. Okay.

Unmarried women will not be allowed to become pregnant through in vitro fertilization or other artificial means. Those who are married will have to apply for a “gestational certificate” that must be presented to the doctor prior to administration of the procedure and must pass through roughly the same mandates required of prospective adoptive parents to receive a license to conceive. Here’s the proposed legislation.

The bill is scheduled to be voted on by the Indiana Senate this month.

Okay, when the hell did I walk into a Margaret Atwood novel?

Wednesday October 5, 2005

A GOP talking head on Fox News just said the following: If you support our troops, approve Harriet Miers for the Supreme Court.

I’ll just let that one stand for itself. We’re all doomed. She may be a fine lawyer, but she shouldn’t be confirmed. George Will:

“Furthermore, there is no reason to believe that Miers’s nomination resulted from the president’s careful consultation with people capable of such judgments. If 100 such people had been asked to list 100 individuals who have given evidence of the reflectiveness and excellence requisite in a justice, Miers’s name probably would not have appeared in any of the 10,000 places on those lists.”

Her only significant qualification is that of being Bush’s friend. No matter your political stripe, how you can be pleased with her?