If you are a voter in any of the following states you have an interesting bill that you might want to research before you vote. Embryo bills and amendments are attempting to change the legal status of frozen embryos. Depending on these bills being passed or not they are (seemingly) raising our awareness of looking at what makes a human being a person and this debate will be at the heart of every reproductive decision. Should OB's and Planned Parenthood offer the morning after pill? Are some birth control methods harming "potential people" in uteruo? IF an embryo is indeed a person who will be responsible and carry out the "rights" of these little people? And what about stem cell research...will that be dead in the water? (At least the research using embryos...)
Ahhhh elections! Time to take a stand!
Sharon
Proposed bills that would change the legal status of frozen embryos:
Colorado: Amendment to the state constitution would define a fertilized human egg as a person. On November ballot.
Colorado: Amendment to the state constitution would define a fertilized human egg as a person. On November ballot.
Indiana: Bill would allow an abandoned embryo to be adopted for implantation under certain and specific circumstances; would make destruction of an abandoned human embryo a misdemeanor. Pending action.
West Virginia: Bill would prohibit frozen embryos from being moved out of the state and bar their destruction. Pending action.
New Jersey: Bill would prohibit fertilization of a human ovum unless it's intended to be implanted in a woman's body. Would prohibit destruction of embryos and research on embryos. If a parent dies or decides not to have an embryo implanted, the embryo would become a ward of the state. Pending action.
West Virginia: Bill would prohibit frozen embryos from being moved out of the state and bar their destruction. Pending action.
New Jersey: Bill would prohibit fertilization of a human ovum unless it's intended to be implanted in a woman's body. Would prohibit destruction of embryos and research on embryos. If a parent dies or decides not to have an embryo implanted, the embryo would become a ward of the state. Pending action.
Georgia: Bill would provide legal status for the embryo. Pending action.
Montana: Petition for the November ballot amending the state constitution would define human life as beginning at the moment of conception. Petition failed.
Federal: HR 4157 from Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), the Sanctity of Human Life Act, would define life as beginning with fertilization, and thus an embryo would "have all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood." Pending; referred to subcommittee.
Montana: Petition for the November ballot amending the state constitution would define human life as beginning at the moment of conception. Petition failed.
Federal: HR 4157 from Rep. Paul Broun (R-Ga.), the Sanctity of Human Life Act, would define life as beginning with fertilization, and thus an embryo would "have all the legal and constitutional attributes and privileges of personhood." Pending; referred to subcommittee.
Posted by: Sharon LaMothe~
Founder of LaMothe Surrogacy Consulting
Owner LaMothe Services
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