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1. Ethical Treatment of Human Embryos Act (ETHNE)

The bill is based upon a bill passed in Louisiana in 1986. The Louisiana bill establishes all in vitro embryos as "juridical persons". There has been NO legal challenge to it in 23 years. The language has been updated to reflect changes in biomedical technology and medical standards since 1986.

ETHNE Overview

ETHNE Press Release

2. Georgia House Bill 388 - The Option of Adoption (Snowflake Embryo Adoption)

Using the template provided by AUL.org , Georgia House Rep. James Mills is offering the nation's first embryo adoption bill.

"Since the late 1970s and the advent of the ability to conceive and store human embryos outside the mother’s womb through in vitro fertilization (IVF), hundreds of thousands of human embryos have been conceived and stored in laboratories across the United States. It is estimated that there are now 500,000+ cryopreserved (frozen) human embryos in storage in the United States."

 

 

Books and Publications

The Emerging Brave New World

by Thomas Glessner

Beginning in 1973 with the infamous Roe v. Wade decision American society has increasingly accepted the concept that humanity can be divorced from personhood and thereby some human beings can be manipulated and destroyed for the selfish gains of others because they are not considered "persons.”

 

 

How to be a Christian in a Brave New World

by Joni Eareckson Tada and Nigel Cameron

This book serves as a guidebook for believers, to awaken their interest, offer practical help, enable them to think through big questions in light of Scripture, and prepare them for the greatest issue of the 21st century: our new power to redesign human nature and determine the boundaries of human life through abortion, cloning, euthanasia, eugenics, and robotics.

 

Lessons from History

Personhood Initiatives

Federal Personhood Amendment (ongoing)

Alabama Personhood Bill (2010)

California Human Life Amendment (2010)

Colorado Personhood Amendment (2010)

Florida Personhood Amendment(2010)

Georgia Human Life Amendment (2007-ongoing)

Maryland Personhood Amendment (2009)

Michigan Personhood Amendment (2010)

Missouri (2010)

Mississippi (2010)

Montana (2010)

Nevada (2010)

North Dakota Personhood Bill (2009)

South Carolina Personhood  Bills (2)

Virginia Right to Life Bill (2010)