Comments on: Embryo adoption gains final approval

By: Michael

Michael — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 13:56:20 +0000

I, unlike most people on this post, actually have read the bill. I know of couples who have adopted embryos, and this would help them immensely. For infertile couples who want to adopt and want to experience pregnancy, embryo adoption is a wonderful route. This bill simply makes it clear that once the embryos are implanted in the woman, the biological parents can’t come back and claim ownership. I fail to see the horror in that.

By: fultonrighty

fultonrighty — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:46:40 +0000

The hostility this issue engenders is really hard to fathom. This bill only gives an option to adopt embryos and have clear parental rights over them before they are transferred to the woman bearing the child. There is no “anti-woman” or “anti-choice” dimension to this at all. It protects the woman who bears the child from having the biological parents come back and claim him. More choices–you can do the adoption route or do what is being done now, more of a contract law deal. Oh the outrage!

By: Georgia Update–Embryo Adoption Legislation Enacted « Related Topics

Georgia Update–Embryo Adoption Legislation Enacted « Related Topics — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 18:16:16 +0000

[...] I won’t retrace the whole history here–it’s there in the past posts on Georgia’s legislation. But this is the end of the story, at least for this year. The Georgia legislature has enacted a bill–HB388–that ostensibly provides for the adoption of embryos. (It’s called the Option for Adoption Act.) If you do not want to read the actual bill, you can read news coverage here. [...]

By: stella

stella — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 15:58:31 +0000

The adoption of embryos breaches the UN’s Convemtion On The Rights Of The Child in papragraph nine of its preamable as they do not have “the same rights as others prior to birth”

Old fashioned adoption itself has proved to have emotional casualities as can be seen by Googling the word adoptee: you will see invective and hurt as written up by adoptees themselves.

Please see the link >

http://about-orphans.blogspot.com for some professionals’ insights.

And please also see >

http://beware-of-the-fertility-industry.blogspot.com

By: rightofcenter

rightofcenter — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 22:23:57 +0000

To those who have already posted,
I can’t quite figure out why this is a sham and a disgrace, and why I should be outraged. If you were paying attention, you would know that this clearly does not give the embryo any rights. If you are labeling this anti-choice, how does it in anyway limit a woman’s choices?

By: Kevin

Kevin — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:11:35 +0000

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.

By: TW

TW — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:28:19 +0000

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.

By: villadawg

villadawg — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 20:13:20 +0000

I’m thankful I am moving to Missouri.