<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/b305ea6d-9fcf-417a-a612-00cb42732d93/E0C1A32C-0789-4EDE-B8BD-C4E5C0F62C4C/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Ethics_rights/2009/04/ga-house-passes-nation-s-first-embryo-adoption-bill-04/index.html" href="http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Ethics_rights/2009/04/ga-house-passes-nation-s-first-embryo-adoption-bill-04/index.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.christianpost.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Ethics_rights/2009/04/ga-house-passes-nation-s-first-embryo-adoption-bill-04/index.html"><P>The nation's first ever bill permitting the adoption of embryos was approved Friday by the Georgia House. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Ethics_rights/2009/04/ga-house-passes-nation-s-first-embryo-adoption-bill-04/index.html"><P>Called the "Option of Adoption Act," the measure is designed to prevent an embryo donor from later claiming the child born from that embryo to another family, according to The Associated Press. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Ethics_rights/2009/04/ga-house-passes-nation-s-first-embryo-adoption-bill-04/index.html"><P>It specifically provides procedures for the genetic parents to relinquish their rights to embryos before birth and allow the recipient intended parents to be the legal parents of the child that may be born as a result of embryo transfer. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Ethics_rights/2009/04/ga-house-passes-nation-s-first-embryo-adoption-bill-04/index.html"><P>Additionally, the bill changes the definition of "child" to include a human embryo and offers the same legal rights to adoption as human beings. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.christianpost.com/Society/Ethics_rights/2009/04/ga-house-passes-nation-s-first-embryo-adoption-bill-04/index.html"><P>"We are pleased that we are making headway in our goal of establishing personhood for the pre-born," said Daniel Becker, president of Georgia Right to Life, in a statement. "Gone are the terms designating the human child at an embryonic stage as property ... devoid of rights." </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/E0C1A32C-0789-4EDE-B8BD-C4E5C0F62C4C/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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