I believe these guardians of human rights are the ones who did the
redefining...a zygote has been considered pre-embryonic for a very long
time.

Kathleen


2009/4/4 rayilynlee <[log in to unmask]>

>     Georgia Legislature Passes Nation's First Embryo Adoption Law
>      Contact: Daniel Becker, Georgia Right to Life, 678-524-9504
>
>
>      ATLANTA, April 3 /Christian Newswire/ -- 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.
>
>      "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."
>
>      It is also possible that a Federal Adoption Tax Credit will now be
> available to parents to offset the legal costs of adoption. The limit under
> IRS guidelines is $11,500.
>
>      "We look forward next year to the passage of a companion bill, SB169,
> the Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos. This would effectively ban
> therapeutic and reproductive cloning, destructive embryonic stem cell
> research and human/animal hybrids." says Becker. The Georgia Senate had
> passed SB 169 by a vote of 34 to 22.
>
>      Other pro-life initiatives passed this session include Senate
> Resolution 328, "that the members of this body recognize that the right to
> life is paramount and the need for protection of the lives of the innocent
> at every stage."
>
>      Georgia Right to Life (www.grtl.org) promotes respect and effective
> legal protection for all human life from its earliest biological beginning
> through natural death. GRTL is one of the number of organizations that have
> adopted Personhood (www.personhood.net) as the most effective pro-life
> strategy for the 21st century.
>
>
> Rayilyn Brown
> Director AZNPF
> Arizona Chapter National Parkinson Foundation
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