Senator's bill bans surrogate pregnancy in Kansas

[WillParkinson]

http://cjonline.com/news/state/2014-01-22/senators-bill-bans-surrogate-pregnancy-kansas

The chairwoman of the Kansas Senate's health committee marked the anniversary of the Roe v. Wade decision Wednesday by introducing a bill that would ban surrogate pregnancies in Kansas and invited two women to undergo sonograms in front of legislators.

Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook, a Shawnee Republican who leads the Senate Public Health and Welfare Committee, said her bill would mirror prohibition on surrogate pregnancy imposed in the District of Columbia.

She declined to go into detail because she wasn't holding a draft of the legislation she wrote. Bills in conceptual form — not presented in writing — can be introduced in legislative committees. The senator promised to email a draft of the bill Wednesday to The Topeka Capital-Journal but didn’t.

"Currently in Kansas, there are no laws regarding surrogacy," she said. "I'd like the committee to take a look at that."

[Squinch]

1. All this need to control women's bodies is pathological. Freud's sister would call it uterus envy.

[blkmusclmachine]

2. The GOP <<really>> hates women. How much longer til the GOP starts demanding that women wear burquas

Because that's where the insane GOP is headed...

[woodsprite]

4. Even the GOP women hate other women. n/t

[Ilsa]

3. Why ban surrogacy? For some couples, it's the only way.

Ultrasound in the legislature? Obviously not transvaginal.