Idiocy In Tennessee

There are two bills going in front of the Tennessee House and Senate this week.  House Bill 2159 and Senate Bill 2136 can be counted as yet another addition to the "banning bill" craze that has unfortunately become a trend in this country.  

The first issue?  The bill will restrict the use of donated embryos to straight, married couples.  Unmarried and gay women would be prohibited from using egg donation and IVF as a means to become pregnant and start a family.  The bill repeatedly refers to 'a woman and her husband' as recipients. 

Even more idiotic?  The married, straight woman who became pregnant through an implanted embryo, carried for the entire nine months, and delivered the child will be legally known and referred to as the ADOPTIVE mother.  Adoptive?  HELL NO.  

Seriously????  So all the bible-beating daughters who get knocked up by their redneck one-night-stands in between their food stamp and Medicaid appointments are good, wholesome, positive examples of family values?  This is virtuous and true?  WWJD?  

But single or gay women who have the commitment AND disposable income to drop $15,000+ to seek egg donation and IVF to realize their dream are an abomination?  

Tennessee recently passed a law that prohibits a single person or gay couple from fostering or adopting at all.  Hence, the reason for classifying egg donation as 'adoption'.  Thank god we have those Republicans in Tennessee using their time to "save" children from a happy and fulfilling life in a single-mother or gay household.  Isn't it so much better for these kids to be caught up and bounced around in an ill-supervised and failing foster care system?  Praise Jesus. 

NBC conducted an evaluation of 257 cities across the US with statistics from the US Census Bureau, National Center for Education Statistics, FBI, National Center for Health Statistics, and the American Bar Association.  The story deemed Clarksville, Tennessee the worst city in the United States to raise a child.  I am thinking it is NOT because Clarksville is where all the gays live.  

Furthermore, what's up with these lawmakers who are wasting time and energy to go out of their way to attack a married woman, who has assumably already has gone through years of infertility treatment and heartache, by pouring salt in her wounds?  Calling her the adoptive mother?  

Idiocy.  Pure and simple.

Can I say again how happy I am that I live in a blue state?