Then They Came For Me

When the Georgia Senate Bill 169 was introduced, a friend of mine asked me why I was so up in arms about it. “After all,” he said, “You don’t live in Georgia. It doesn’t affect you.” Doesn’t affect me? Really? First, I don’t believe it’s true that just because I don’t live in Georgia the [...]

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Oh Dear Heavens – UPDATED

The Georgia Senate actually passed that damn bill.http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/sum/sb169.htm Resolve has posted that they will review the revised version of the bill and post a full analysis as soon as they know more. Okay, found the revised version of the bill: Here’s the bill as passed: http://www.legis.state.ga.us/legis/2009_10/fulltext/sb169.htm It essentially took out all the provisions relating to [...]

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So… Have I Calmed Down?

Ahem. Now that I’m over my little hissy fit from last night. And, um, this morning. And, um, this afternoon… Have I calmed down over the proposed Georgia legislation? In a word? Not so much. It turns out, I’m a wee bit, shall we say, opinionated. Let’s review this proposed legislation, shall we? In plain [...]

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Response

BettyRubble wrote a comment:To be honest, I think [the Georgia bill on embryo transfer limitations is] very reasonable. It is unfortunate that it took the birth of octuplets to “command” that a bill be nessessary when most doctors use common sense for how many embryo’s to transfer. I could see an uproar if they said [...]

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Gah!

I wrote a very articulate and scathing post about Georgia’s proposed bill on restricting the number of embryos transferred and created in an IVF cycle. But then I went to copy the post to my clipboard before posting it just in case anything happened to it while posting it and a slip of the keyboard [...]

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