Stealth Pro-Life Victory!

Stealth Pro-Life Victory! May 01, 2008 This afternoon, in a vote of 414-1, the House passed the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act (GINA). This same bill recently passed unanimously in the Senate. Seems like it's not too controversial, right? Well, this very complicated and intricate bill had some wonderful pro-life language in it. On the whole, GINA was set up so that insurance companies and employers couldn't exclude coverage for patients based on genetic information. The fantastic pro-life part is that this included unborn children and children who are adopted. So if a mom is given a pre-natal diagnosis of some genetic disease, sydrome, illness, etc., that unborn child is protected under the law. No more pressuring to have an abortion of a less than perfect child. And the law extends to embryos! Since genetic tests can be administered on embryos only a few cells old, these little ones need protection too. We actually have a bill that gives these little ones the same protection as older human beings. Thanks must be given to Representative Bart Stupak (D-MI) who made sure that language was included in the bill. What a great pro-life victory!