Breakfast of Champions

Whenever our cat breaks out in typical feline craziness, we tease that he must have had Wheaties for breakfast. After all, it surely takes copious amounts of fuel to chase things we cannot see for reasons we don't understand. Just ask Delegate Bob.

After Bob's ill-reasoned HB 187 was defeated last week without debate in committee, you'd think he would have tucked his tail between his legs and crawled under a rock. But no, ever the optimistic bobblehead, he decided he'd approach the legislation of reproductive morality in a different way.

Introducing HB 412 - which seeks to prohibit the use of anonymous egg or sperm donations with regard to fertility treatment. Nevermind that gamete donation offers parenting options to millions of people, ranging from single women to gay couples to Delegate Bob's own kind - straight married Catholics. Bob is determined to legislate away the reproductive choices of what he calls "desperate" women. What makes me desperate, Bob, is the very idea that you are in a position to judge anyone's pathway to parenthood.