Major Nutcase Alert: Georgia Passes Nation's First Embryo Adoption Law

[cali]

By Daniel Becker

ATLANTA -- By a vote of 108 to 61, the Georgia House sent the nation's first ever embryo adoption bill, HB 388, to the desk of Governor Sonny Perdue for him to sign into law.

"We are pleased that we are making headway in our goal of establishing personhood for the pre-born" says Daniel Becker, President of Georgia Right to Life. "Gone are the terms designating the human child at an embryonic stage as property ... devoid of rights." says Becker.

The language of the bill stops short of declaring full personhood for the child but does introduce new terms that acknowledge for the first time that an embryo has "rights and responsibilities" that are owed to it under Georgia law. "Legal embryo custodian" replaces "embryo donor" throughout Georgia's new code sections dealing with embryo adoption. No longer is an embryo described as being "donated" by its genetic parent.

"Gametes, cars, old clothes and other property are 'donated'" says the bill's author, House Rep. James Mills, "not children ... they are adopted."

It also clarifies that an embryo's life begins "at a single-celled" stage. "This is an important distinction as we see the medical community attempt to lessen the personhood of an embryo by re-defining a zygote to be a 'pre-embryo'" says Becker.

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http://www.thevoicemagazine.com/headline-news/525-georgia-passes-nations-first-embryo-adoption-law.html

[marmar]

1. Emoticons say what words can't........

:crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:

[cali]

2. This quote is just mind boggling.

"Estimates are that over 40,000 cryo-preserved human embryos are abiding in concentration cans in our state," says Becker, "this will allow them an opportunity to have a birthday."

[JerseygirlCT]

13. What's the next step? Women being required to offer their

wombs so these "cryo-preserved human embryos" become anything more than that?

Big fat slippery slope here, and once again, women are the ones in the sights.

[lynnertic]

29. concentration cans?

unbelievable.

[Crunchy Frog]

30. "Concentration cans"?

:rofl:

[babylonsister]

3. Wow. teh stupid, it hurts? nt

[Sparkly]

4. "...full personhood for the child..."

The child?! Children already have "full personhood!"

Anyway, let's hope this never succeeds.

[asjr]

5. Can we be certain this is not the Onion?

[Kalyke]

12. The source isn't very informed.

See my post below.

[LynnTheDem]

6. And yet again the world shudders at the deep stupidity in America.

This is so fucking beyond embarrassment.

[NOW tense]

7. Can I adopt all of them, and hold them hostage? n/t

[Rude Horner]

8. Jesus H Christ. I thought it was something from "The Onion"

Of course, this is just the anti-abortionist's way of getting their foot in the door.

[lamp_shade]

9. So at birth I was already 9 months old. Does that mean I can get

full retirement benefits 9 months earlier than I thought?

[babylonsister]

19. Ok, that's funny!

:spray:

[unapatriciated]

33. What can I say....

It's Georgia, where you can't ....

keep a donkey in a bathtub.... or

No one may carry an ice cream cone in their back pocket if it is Sunday.

It is illegal to use profanity in front of a dead body which lies in a funeral home or in a coroners office.

Members of the state assembly cannot be ticketed for speeding while the state assembly is in session.

Cussing over the telephone is against the law.
(oh noes, I'm in trouble now)
http://www.dumblaws.com/laws/united-states/georgia

We are working on legislation to put a stop to this.....

[unapatriciated]

32. or have a beer at 20 and 3 months

and vote at 17 and 3 months....

[bullimiami]

10. freeze 100 embryos declare 100 dependents.

[Kalyke]

11. It'd be helpful not to get news from skewed perspectives.

The law is designed to protect adoptive families:

The Legislature signed off on a proposal that would provide legal protection to families who use donated embryos to have a child. The House's 108-61 vote Friday on the "Option of Adoption Act" is designed to prevent an embryo donor from later claiming the child born from that embryo to another family.

http://www.wrcbtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10129904

I am a bit concerned about this law giving "personhood" to cells, but the intent was not to move toward restricted reproductive rights, but to keep donors from staking a claim to any children the zygotes produce who have been adopted.

[cali]

14. yes, it's skewed but this rep used this language:

"Gametes, cars, old clothes and other property are 'donated'" says the bill's author, House Rep. James Mills, "not children ... they are adopted."

He referred to embryos as children.

[BOSSHOG]

15. Their next innovation? Rescue stations for used condoms??

[Solly Mack]

16. Idiots

[madrchsod]

17. the adoptive parents could be eligible for a federal tax deduction!

[Botany]

18. This is a real story

http://blogs.ajc.com/gold-dome-live/2009/04/03/embryo-adoption-gains-final-approval/?cxntfid=blogs_gold_dome_live

Wasn't Deliverance filmed in Georgia and based on some real Georgians?

[babylonsister]

22. You're right. And here all these years I thought

it was Arkansas. :crazy:

http://classicfilms.suite101.com/article.cfm/movie_deliverance_1972

[cali]

23. Comments from that link:

I’m thankful I am moving to Missouri.

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April 3rd, 2009
4:28 pm
There is no better proof of our failing schools than the morons we have running our state.

Does this mean the biological mother is merely an ‘incubator?’

Do the adoptive parents get to tell the ‘incubator’ what not to eat and what they can/can’t do?

If the ‘incubator’ miscarries, are the adoptive parents on the hook for funeral costs?

They’re starting to tell Georgia jokes in Alabama.

Morons.

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April 3rd, 2009
5:11 pm
This is a maneuver by the radical Right to Lifers to chip away at a woman’s choice. Since the fringe right will never get abortion fully outlawed, they’re pulling stunts like this to advance their agenda.

This is a sham, and disgrace. The next step in their plan is to give the embryo rights.

If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention.

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[notadmblnd]

20. Imagine the tax deductions.

:crazy:

[TWiley]

21. Arrest Menstruating Women who fail to get pregnant NOW !

[Vinca]

38. Actually, send all used tampons to the Georgia legislature.

Many fertilized eggs routinely hit the cotton every month and get flushed down the toilet. Oops . . . forget this idea. They might make it a law of some kind.

[old mark]

24. I lived in Georgia for a while a long time ago and pretty much liked it.

I'm really sorry to hear they have elected a real crop if idiots there - it was a beautiful state.


mark

[Dawgs]

26. It still is a beautiful state.

There are stupid everywhere.

[old mark]

28. You are certainly right - I lived near the Augusta area, and really

liked it a lot.
Yes, we have more than our share here in PA, many of them holding elected office.
Rick Santorum was our senator at one time - no more need be said.


mark

[Botany]

34. very true

It is very pretty and stupid is a universal condition

I live in Ohio Ken Blackwell & Rod Parsley :puke:

[rocktivity]

25. But it takes TWO cells to create a human being, doesn't it?

Amobeas are single-celled beings--do they now have "personhood"? And doesn't this law mean that each of my blood cells is a "being"?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[Massacure]

27. If life begins at a single cell stage,

I'm going to run for prosecutor and whoever kills a man will be charged with one billion counts of murder. And whoever kills a woman will be charged with a a thousand counts of murder. :eyes:

[IDemo]

35. If life begins "at a single-celled" stage, we must save the sperm!!

Embryos = "snowflake babies"

Sperm = "little guppies"

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

37. Which means guys have to totally stop masturbating.

Stop it right now, ya hear?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

31. An embryo has rights and *responsibilities*?

Just curious -- what are embryos responsible for?

Equal rights and responsibilities for single-celled organisms: Amoebas of the world, unite!

[IDemo]

36. And, they have gun ownership rights

but that AK-47 is gonna be a tight fit.

[KamaAina]

39. Gametes are donated??!!

Who the hell is this James Mills, anyway? Some kind of commie??

Full personhood rights for gametes NOW!! All together:

"Every sperm is sacred, every sperm is great,
And when a sperm is wasted, God gets quite irate!"

:sarcasm:

edit: Freudian typo: scared for sacred!