In Which Common Sense Exits Stage Right.

Is your embryo registered?

One of my biggest pet peeves is hypocrisy, i.e. someone who posts on Facebook about how stupid someone else is, maximizing the spelling/grammar errors or the Catholic Church being a beacon of moral fortitude when they hide child sex abuse cases. Well, here's a bit of hypocrisy from some Arizona Republican Senators: they want to track your embryos. Ladies and gentlemen, think about that for a second: THEY. WANT. TO. TRACK. YOUR. EMBRYOS. That's right, your unborn child. The miracle of life that may be INSIDE you, INSIDE of your wife, INSIDE your girlfriend, INSIDE your sister, INSIDE your mother. You've got to be fucking kidding me. But, here it is:

The proposed legislation, (SB 1376), was written by the Center for Arizona Policy (CAP), which bills itself as “Arizona’s leading pro-life, pro-family organization.” CAP pushes anti-choice legislation (including legislation to confer the full rights of personhood on fertilized eggs), opposes gay marriage, and seeks to promote “religious freedom.”

I don't think that they understand that you CAN NOT promote "religious freedom" when, in denying marriage to a group of people on, let's face it, religious views, you are denying someone's religious freedoms. If you want to be pro-life, great, don't get an abortion. Awesome for you. Don't push that shit on anyone else. How do you have the time to care so much about what someone else wants to do with their fucking lives, especially when they are lived in a way that doesn't fucking concern you?

CAP also opposes the practice of assisted reproductive technology for couples or individuals struggling with infertility, and so their answer is to pry into the lives of those seeking such assistance and making all details of their medical treatment public. Similar to portions of SB 1361, another bill from the 2012 legislative session, this newer bill seeks to capture and make publicly available information on the disposition of every embryo created in the process of in-vitro fertilization, and the results of every treatment involving ART.  The information required is largely redundant to the statistics and information submitted to the CDC, most of which is publicly available.

So, the idea here is to track fertilized eggs and the resulting embryos to make sure that no one is getting an abortion, specifically those created through in-vitro or other Assisted Reproductive Technology. Lord help the woman who has a miscarriage, who now not only has to deal with the heartbreak of losing a child that they wanted, but now some asshat calls her up and says "Hey, could I get the doctor's note that says it was a miscarriage, otherwise we're gonna think you had an abortion and are going to charge you and the doctor as the little fucking criminals that you are." Awesome.

Now, on top of this lunacy, I have to wonder how the nine Republican senators who are co-sponsoring this bill claim to want less government interference in people's lives when they are introducing a bill that literally puts the government inside a woman's womb. HOW DOES THAT MAKE SENSE?! Right, it doesn't. It make no fucking sense. Look:

"I'm an asshat at CAP, and I am pro-life. I worry about abortions. Who should I target to make sure that they don't get abortions? Is it high schoolers, students whom we could hit with education on how to protect themselves from STDs and unwanted pregnancies? No, that's too logical. Is it low-income, poorly educated individuals whose multiple children are often the result of lack of access to birth control and then are often recipients of the government aid I hate so much? Nope, I'd have nothing left to bitch about. I GOT IT! Let me target the women who want a baby so badly that they see a medical specialist. Women who have had problems conceiving, who are at higher risks of miscarriage, but are determined to have a baby. I'll fuck with them for a little bit, get their fetus all regulated-like. THAT WILL SHOW GOD HOW MUCH I LOVE BABIES!"

It makes no fucking sense.
 Original Article (with title changed for emphasis): AZ Conservatives are fucking insane.