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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-11-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human genetics2
dcterms:Language	"nl"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011129.1.4-020"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-11-29-Speech-4-0212
lpv:speaker	lp:Lousewies van der Laan2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; Committee on the Environment, Public Health and Consumer Policy (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Delegation to the EU-Slovak Republic Joint Parliamentary Committee (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3 member_of_the_bureau; ELDR (1999-09-13--2003-01-29)3 vice-chair; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Democraten 66 (1999-07-20--2003-01-29)3 member; Committee on Women's Rights and Equal Opportunities (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 member; Delegation for relations with the Palestinian Legislative Council (1999-09-29--2002-01-14)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, today’s debate is an extremely important one. In fact, what we are discussing is nothing less than life itself. We are talking about scientific research with the potential to cure serious human diseases such as Parkinson’s, Alzheimer’s, MS, diabetes and perhaps even AIDS, to improve or prolong life. It is definitely not a question we should treat lightly. It therefore strikes me as a sorry state of affairs when this Parliament explicitly refuses to acknowledge the distinction between reproductive and therapeutic cloning: the former aims at the creation of new human beings, the latter at the creation of new tissue. Directly or indirectly banning the latter means ruling out a host of scientific possibilities that might help human beings. There is no trace of subsidiarity in this report. Ethical and moral dilemmas especially should be solved as closely as possible to the people they affect, since they appeal directly to personal conscience. For this reason, the call to the Commission to come up with legislation cannot command the approval of my group. Finally, I am bound to say that I am offended by the monopoly that some right-wing and Green MEPs lay claim to in the ethical field. Some fellow MEPs give the impression that the most restrictive view is automatically the ethically superior one. Therefore, if we restrict or even ban promising research, which might bring the sick a cure or an alleviation of their suffering or even save their lives, that is a decision with profound ethical implications."@en1

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