Well, it’s July 1st, and that means that a whole passel of new laws go into effect here in Georgia, including one that will allow frozen embryos stored in fertility clinics to be adopted.  Since embryos are nothing less than children it makes sense they can be adopted, yes?  Except, of course, that current adoption law in Georgia only applies to actual children; so this new law, the “Option of Adoption Act” (HB388 if you’re interested) stops short of declaring embryos to be actual children, and instead of “adoption” per se we have “embryo transfer” and instead of “adoptive parent” we have “recipient intended parent.”

(more…)