Monday, January 16, 2006
Here's Money Well Spent -- NOT!!!
Federal Grant Helps Promote Embryo Adoption
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 16 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The National Embryo Donation Center announced today that it is a partner in a $309,000 embryo adoption awareness grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The Baptist Health System Foundation in Knoxville, TN, which serves as the primary recipient of the HHS grant, will work with the National Embryo Donation Center and the Christian Medical & Dental Association to educate the public about embryo adoption.
The genetic parents determine their own level of involvement in the adoption process and whether or not to remain anonymous. After completing the embryo adoption agreement and a home study, the embryos are transferred to the adoptive mother, allowing her to experience pregnancy and the birth of their adopted child. However, in the case of embryo adoption, the adoptive parents are recognized as the birth parents of the child. [ED: This means there is not even an original and an amended certificate...meaning no way to ever even know you are not biologically related to the mother who raised you, unless she CHOSES to tell you! And Lord only knows who the father of these fertilzied embryos is, especially in cases of single moms "adopting" them. No way for these kids to obtain medical info, no way to know if they are marrying a sib...]
Jeffrey Keenan, MD, medical director for the National Embryo Donation Center, noted, "This grant will help reach and inform those families who are facing a dilemma regarding their stored embryos. It allows parents to make a life-affirming decision about their unused embryos while offering the miracle of childbirth to a couple who has experienced the anguish of infertility."
To schedule an interview please contact Di Oakley at (865) 405-5354 or by e-mail at diahnoakley@comcast.net or Margie Shealy at (423) 844-1047 or e-mail at Margie.Shealy@cmda.org. Also see www.embryodonation.org
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While just a drop in the federal budget, why does our government and these "Christian" organizations see any need to financially support, advocate and spread the word about this bizzare method of becoming parents? Funding this program is in direct opposition to finding homes for children who need them. I think we should all write our representatives in government and oppose this outrageous use of our taxes for the creation of designer babies who will be forced to grow up denied any way of knowing the truth of their genetic origins.
The health of these offspring is being totaly negated so some so-called do-gooder "Christian" can say he saved an EMBRYO...not alife...human TISSUE inseminated in a laboratory that could not survive on its own.
My skin crawls that the nation I call home has even one red cent to spend on this outrage, when children go hungry within its boarders; where children are beaten to death and proterctive services says they lack the man power to protect them...
"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world." Doctor Frankenstein
"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!" Ibid
KNOXVILLE, Tenn., Jan. 16 /Christian Wire Service/ -- The National Embryo Donation Center announced today that it is a partner in a $309,000 embryo adoption awareness grant, funded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS).
The Baptist Health System Foundation in Knoxville, TN, which serves as the primary recipient of the HHS grant, will work with the National Embryo Donation Center and the Christian Medical & Dental Association to educate the public about embryo adoption.
The genetic parents determine their own level of involvement in the adoption process and whether or not to remain anonymous. After completing the embryo adoption agreement and a home study, the embryos are transferred to the adoptive mother, allowing her to experience pregnancy and the birth of their adopted child. However, in the case of embryo adoption, the adoptive parents are recognized as the birth parents of the child. [ED: This means there is not even an original and an amended certificate...meaning no way to ever even know you are not biologically related to the mother who raised you, unless she CHOSES to tell you! And Lord only knows who the father of these fertilzied embryos is, especially in cases of single moms "adopting" them. No way for these kids to obtain medical info, no way to know if they are marrying a sib...]
Jeffrey Keenan, MD, medical director for the National Embryo Donation Center, noted, "This grant will help reach and inform those families who are facing a dilemma regarding their stored embryos. It allows parents to make a life-affirming decision about their unused embryos while offering the miracle of childbirth to a couple who has experienced the anguish of infertility."
To schedule an interview please contact Di Oakley at (865) 405-5354 or by e-mail at diahnoakley@comcast.net or Margie Shealy at (423) 844-1047 or e-mail at Margie.Shealy@cmda.org. Also see www.embryodonation.org
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While just a drop in the federal budget, why does our government and these "Christian" organizations see any need to financially support, advocate and spread the word about this bizzare method of becoming parents? Funding this program is in direct opposition to finding homes for children who need them. I think we should all write our representatives in government and oppose this outrageous use of our taxes for the creation of designer babies who will be forced to grow up denied any way of knowing the truth of their genetic origins.
The health of these offspring is being totaly negated so some so-called do-gooder "Christian" can say he saved an EMBRYO...not alife...human TISSUE inseminated in a laboratory that could not survive on its own.
My skin crawls that the nation I call home has even one red cent to spend on this outrage, when children go hungry within its boarders; where children are beaten to death and proterctive services says they lack the man power to protect them...
"Life and death appeared to me ideal bounds, which I should first break through, and pour a torrent of light into our dark world." Doctor Frankenstein
"Man," I cried, "how ignorant art thou in thy pride of wisdom!" Ibid
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