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DEL.ICIO.USNotes from the Dome: Bills dear to the Religious Right still live
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Cleaning up on a few items from Friday’s session of the Legislature:
— State Sen. David Shafer’s adult stem cell bill looked like it had hit a wall this week when it didn’t get a vote at the committee level. We spoke with House Majority Leader Jerry Keen (R-St. Simons Island), who said the stall is merely temporary.
“We should get that bill out,” Keen predicted. Shafer’s bill would encourage the construction of a cord-blood bank
S.B. 148 would require all state hospitals by June 30, 2009, to inform pregnant women that they can donate placenta, umbilical cords and amniotic fluid to either public or private banks for medical research. Georgians who contribute to “non-destructive” stem cell research would be eligible for a state tax break.
The biomedical industry has opposed the bill — they say its language takes an unfair swipe at embryonic stem cell research. Keen said all sides are working on that issue.
— H.B. 147, which dwells on the issue of sonograms for women seeking abortions, is headed for a conference committee after the House disagreed to changes in the bill made by the Senate.
State Rep. James Mills (R-Gainesville) said the Senate had inserted language to make the sonograms more cumpulsory, and thus less constitutional.
— Also, the House gave final passage to H.R. 102, the measure that gives Robert Clark a $1.2 million annuity to compensate him for the 23 years he spent in prison for a crime he didn’t commit.
The House had to approve a minor change made by the Senate. The measure now goes to the governor.
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By Allen
April 14, 2007 10:28 AM | Link to this
While this issue greatly concerns me, I am more concerned about the abuse that religions are free to impose upon people. The IRS and the government would do well to start with the World Missions Department of the Church of God in Cleveland TN. And then, just hop on over to the General Offices and investigate those in their ivory towers. They rant and rave about political and “moral” issues, but they have their own sins and dirty secrets. People generously give to missionaries, only to be duped and unknowingly continue to pad the pockets of those at the top of the heap. Mean while, the missionaries are required to raise their own funds yet continue to seek to help without any help for themselves. People, STOP giving THROUGH the organization and give directly to the missionaries!!! Or find and organization like the Baptisit and Methodist who SUPPORT their missionaries.