Today, the Georgia House of Representatives passed a bill which allows for the adoption of embryos that are currently in cryopreservation. The bill also designates embryos as children, rather than property.

"You donate property, but you adopt persons... While four states have recognized some form of embryo 'donation', none of those states have a statute explicitly authorizing embryo 'adoption'."

The bill goes next to the Georgia Senate. If the bill is passed there and signed into law by Governor Sonny Perdue, Georgia will become the first state to designate the transfer of human embryos as adoption rather than donation. Source: MetroCatholic

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Mark Lloyd-Selby is a senior social work practitioner who offers a personal perspective on how adoption cases are handled in the United Kingdom. His letter is written in response to an article by Kate Hilpern title Unfit to be a Mother, in which she questions the adoption system.

"Within Hilpern's article Liberal Democrat MP John Hemming presents the results [of new adoption performance indicators] as being rather different from the intention: 'What you wind up with is social workers under pressure to achieve targets.'... Neither my colleagues nor myself are aware of the targets Hemming refers to."

Selby goes on to assure readers that social workers can't be "steamrollered" into supporting an adoption. Read more at Guardian.co.uk.

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Labels: childrens_rights, adoption_rights, social_workers

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