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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Georgia’s HB 388, The “Option of Adoption”, the latest abomination in misguided “prolife” attempts.
This year’s adventures in incrementalism in pursuit of civil government recognized personhood, demonstrates an all new low in a prolife industry centered on strategy and not morality. This supposed strategic approach actually garners a loss, much like fractional reserve lending.
HB 388, the “Option of Adoption Act”, is a legislative effort that attempts to move cryogenically suspended humans out of storage and into uteruses with such dehumanizing terms as “legal embryo custodian”, “relinquish rights and responsibilities to an embryo”, and “recipient intended parent.”
The messy legal jargon clearly attempting to objectify cryogenically suspended humans so as not to inadvertently apply the idea of full humanity and protection under the Constitution, raises more questions than it answers. The embryo custodian isn’t referred to as a parent until such time as the embryo transfer may result in a live birth. This would muddy the waters for death certificates issued for post 20 week gestation prenatal babies in the state of Georgia. If you aren’t a parent, and your baby dies after 20 weeks gestation, how can a custodian be issued a death certificate for failed embryonic property?
If one has rights and responsibilities regarding these embryos, what legal responsibility does the in-vetro clinic have for embryos? What if some embryos are killed, aka “discarded” in the process of fertility treatments? What if cryogenically suspended humans are misplaced or thawed to their detriment? On the basis of “embryonic rights and responsibilities” in what way can parents prosecute for the improper care of their embryonic children?
Furthermore, this legislation as currently written would open the floodgates for a new industry in pedaling human property. It would encourage fertility doctors to “create” greater quantities of embryos since money would be made in their care and adoption process. This legislation would give birth to a whole new world of human trafficking.
In January 2008 according to testimony by doctors engaged in human embryo production, during the HR 536 Personhood committee hearings, there were 40,000 cryogenically suspended humans in the state of Georgia. The money to be made in openly trafficking those humans to the adoption market, and increasing inventory supplies through increased embryo production outside the womb, would only add to the dehumanization of children in the modern era of “bioethics.” Market competition would encourage the streamlining of techniques for creating certain traits, sexes, eye color, hair color, and other attributes, as “in-vetro” and adoption clinics vied for business from a growing population afflicted with infertility. In our current economic crisis, college campuses would be flooded with appeals for girls to surrender to egg harvesting for payments of $5,000 or more.
Furthermore, studies are showing that cryogenically suspended humans once brought out of animated suspension and allowed to mature have elevated health risks, and tend to contract certain childhood diseases at a much higher rate than naturally conceived children. An increase in the production of cryogenically suspended humans for the purpose of the embryo adoption industry, would further debilitate a health care system already gone very bad.
Unless this legislation includes an amendment banning any further production of embryos in the state of Georgia outside the womb, it is a grossly misdirected effort, that will advance technology in cloned and made to order babies, further erode the sanctity of human life, and further advance a profitable industry of bio-engineering on helpless human subjects.
A vote in favor of HB 388 the “Option of Adoption Act” as currently written is to vote into existence an industry that will streamline the made to order baby, create mass quantities of cryogenically suspended human embryos as valuable inventory, further erode the sanctity of human life, and increase the likelihood for cloning and production of embryos for stem cell research and other biotechnology purposes and experimentation.