Lest there be any question about Del. Bob Marshall’s extremism, see Exhibit B: HB 412: Identification of gamete donors:
Prohibits the use of unrelated anonymous donor oocyte or sperm in the performance of intervening medical technology that completely or partially replaces sexual intercourse as a means of conception and requires, notwithstanding any traditional practice, agreement, regulation, or law to the contrary, the identity of any unrelated oocyte or sperm donor to be noted in the health record of any woman patient whenever any healthcare practitioner licensed by a health regulatory board uses any unrelated donor gametes in the performance of or while assisting in the performance of such intervening medical technology, such as artificial insemination by donor, cryopreservation of gametes and embryos, in vitro fertilization, embryo transfer, gamete intrafallopian tube transfer, and low tubal ovum transfer.
Yes, Marshall wants to ban sperm banks.
This is on top of Exhibit A, HB 187: Unmarried women; prohibition on provision of certain intervening medical technology. That one bans unmarried women from being artificially impregnated, such as the widow of an Iraq veteran from bearing the child of her husband who banked his sperm.
Here I was thinking that Republicans wanted smaller government. Silly me.
Sounds like just another backdoor way to enforce “family values” the way conservative republicans view it… No pregnant single women, nor lesbians.
So what’s up with this republican hang up on other peoples bedroom practices? The bedroom police. They’re like little peeping tom’s trying to get government approval for enforcement powers.
Preach it, brother Mashall. Having smaller government has nothing to do with passing appropriate laws to protect children.
Protect…children.
Protect…children?
I’m reading the words, but I can’t connect them to these bills. What does protecting children have to do with war widows who want to have children?
Why doesn’t Marshall just get it over with and put in a bill to compel every Virginia citizen to convert to his brand of Catholicism? At least that would only entail ONE bill.