Local view for "http://purl.org/linkedpolitics/eu/plenary/2001-03-14-Speech-3-062"

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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-03-14"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Preparatory work for the Stockholm European Council (23/24 March 2001)2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20010314.2.3-062"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-03-14-Speech-3-0632
lpv:speaker	lp:Johannes Blokland2
lpv:spokenAs	co-chair; EDD (2001-01-30--2004-07-19)3 unknown; Staatkundig Gereformeerde Partij - Gereformeerd Politiek Verbond - Reformatorisch Politieke Federatie (1999-07-20--2002-03-17)3 member; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; ECON (2000-02-02--2002-01-14)3 member; Temporary committee on human genetics and other new technologies in modern medicine (2000-12-13--2001-11-29)3 member; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-28--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovenia Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, in order to crank up the political-social debate on biotechnology, the United Kingdom and the Netherlands have asked for this topic to be added to the agenda of the Stockholm Summit. These Member States have indicated that the European Commission must think of a strategy which will lead to the European Union rubbing shoulders with the greatest in the global bio-industry and biotechnological research. However promising the results of biotechnology may be, an ethical boundary remains necessary. In January 1998, we held a debate on the Council of Europe’s Protocol, which included a ban on cloning humans. I then expressed the fear that countries such as the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, which then refused to sign the protocol, probably did not want the ban to be so stringent. In December 2000, the House of Lords in the United Kingdom gave the green light to the therapeutic cloning of human embryos in laboratories. Although reproductive cloning is not permitted, research carries on. There is the danger that permitting therapeutic cloning will leave the door open to the discussion on reproductive cloning. The argument will then be that, at the end of the day, the same technique is already being applied, only for a different purpose. There is a doctor in Italy who already wants to clone people reproductively, and 60 volunteers have already come forward for this experiment. I see each new human life as a gift of God. Every form of human life must be treated with due respect. That is also the only way to protect human dignity. The use of human embryos as consumer items, in the so-called name of research, is hence something that goes against the grain as far as I’m concerned. In the discussion on human genetics, I call on the Council to maintain the ban on therapeutic cloning, as already expressed by the European Parliament in September 2000. Mr President, it is almost impossible to discuss this issue in this arena. I wonder whether Mr Suominen’s statement regarding ‘not words but deeds’ also applies to you? What sanctions do you impose on people sabotaging this system?"@en1

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