Posted on 03/09/2009 5:08:23 PM PDT by Libloather
Georgia Takes Action: SB 169 to Protect Human Embryos
LAWRENCEVILLE, GA, Mar. 9 /Christian Newswire/ -- While President Obama was signing the executive order that would provide federal funds for destructive Human Embryo research today, the Georgia Senate's Health and Human Services Committee moved SB 169: The Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos Act to the Senate Rules Committee on a 7-6 vote.
This bill allows for the advancement of scientific research, while also addressing the important ethical questions related in the ongoing debate about Human Embryonic Stem Cell Research (HESCR).
First, it allows for the continuation of research that is already being done on existing stem cell lines. It supports the scientific research and discoveries that continue to be found through adult stem cell research, as well as other non-destructive stem cell research such as induced pluripotent stem cell (iPs) research.
Second, it limits the creation of new embryos in Georgia for destructive, scientific purposes, such as HESCR, human cloning, human-animal hybrids, and gestating in artificial wombs.
"We have always supported adult stem cell research which to date has 70 known cures to its credit. We are opposed to destructive Human Embryonic Stem Cell research and applaud the Georgia Senate Health and Human Services Committee for passing SB 169 out of committee," said Daniel Becker president of Georgia Right to Life.
Becker, who testified before the committee, said "The Human Embryo is one of us, fully human with great potential. Biological science tells us this. We do not think that we need to sacrifice human life for money and economic development or the remote possibility of a medical cure for someone else. The Nuremburg trials taught us that human beings should not be experimented on to advance science."
If SB 169 is approved by the Senate Rules Committee, then it may be considered on the Senate Floor on Thursday.
Georgia Right to Life is Georgia's largest and oldest organization dedicated solely to the protection of innocent human life from fertilization to natural death.
Well I guess every embryo will be appointed a guardian. If there are any left over embryos from an invitro fertilization procedure, those embryos should be forcibly implanted into randomly selected Rebublican women.
An embryo that is never implanted will die! Since they are frozen, they are hardly living either. I presume if an embryo degenerates to the point that it will not grow if implanted, then will someone be charged with neglegent homicide?
This is beyond ludicrous.
Do not in any way think that I am in favor of creating embryos for research. I am not.
I think I understand what you are saying. I really hate that there is this big push to ban the creation of embryos for scientific research, but yet, hundreds of embryos are created and destroyed daily in fertility clinics and that is just fine.
It is hypocritical. If you believe that an embryo is a human life, then they should not be created and destroyed for any purpose at all.
You must be a Basement Boy.
Whales Crap.And you’re digging your way up.
Do you need a shovel ? Must be a Mommas’ boy.
If you wern’t(old word)so full of yourself,you might be worth something.
“Do you need a shovel ? Must be a Mommas’ boy.”
That was quite intelligent and insightful. Are all your comments so productive?
Maybe you should try reading before you decide to unload with the insults.
A primary key is used as a unique, indexed identifier into a table. Likewise, a DNA sequence indexes and identifies a unique human being. That's the only definition that suffices in the physical realm to disambiguate one human from another.
The proper question to be asking is, given our obligation to our fellow man (assuming you, as a Pelagian, accept any such obligation), should we be taking on these activities that produce human life in the first place? Why wag the dog?
Thought I did read,if I misread I owe someone an apology.
The only way out of this moral delimma is to ban invitro fertilization. Then there will be no empryos to cry over. There will be childless couples who have been denied a chance to become parents becuase of someone else’s desire to control the moral decisions of others.
Where in the pro-life movement is anyone demanding an end to invitro?
Pelagius of Asturias is the one you owe an apology to, unless you disagree that embryos should not be destroyed because they are a human life, which is what he was saying. I will grant you that it was hard to find that information in his post, but that does appear to be his point.
I am trying to keep my beliefs under the radar.
Those of you who do believe that an embryo is due all the rights of a full fledged human need to develop a plan of action to have them implanted. I do not see too many volunteers.
I also suggest that you all start a movement to make invitro fertilization illegal, because that is where all the left over embryos currently come from.
Personally, I don’t believe that embryos should be created or destroyed for any reason. As for the frozen embryos out there, it is an unfortunate situation.
I have a big problem with the idea that embryos can be created and destroyed at fertility clinics so that parents can be assured of the proper number of embryos available, which are free from genetic defects. These embryos can then be frozen indefinately and discarded when not needed. Yet, the use of embryos for scientific research is wrong and should not be allowed.
Basically, this bill says it is ok to destroy embryos so that couples can have children, or couples can avoid potential genetic defects in their children, yet it is not ok for embryos to be destroyed to allow scientific research into curing diseases. That is hypocritical. IMO an embryo is either an innocent life or not. That determination should not depend on the intent behind the creation of the embryo. If it is an innocent life, then any destruction of it is murder. If not, then it should not matter how many are created and what they are used for.
I apologize for trying to speak for you. I misjudged what you were trying to say.
As far as your other inference - an embryo doesn't seem human because you do not interact with tiny young human beings and am therefure unaccustomed to them - it's irrelevant as far as truth proposition about the beginning of life. Having rejected conception as the beginning of human life and its associated legal rights, you are reduced to having to define some arbitrary "poof!" moment in development at which those rights are suddely conferred. This is akin to the abortion lobby's separation of "life" from "personhood" - a mangling of semantics for the express purpose of creating a logical "hole" large enough to accommodate their barbaric practice.
If an embryo had any rights, wouldn’t the most important one be the right be be born?
One last thing - I think a collection should be made for Ms. Octomom or whatever her name is becuase she had all eight of her embryos implanted. Until all you embryo defenders do that, you are just blowing wind. Put your cash where your mouths are.
Ga medic, no aplogies necessary, I think you covered what I said properly.
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