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"I congratulate Mr Fiori. The ethical guidelines in his report were agreed after a year of debate and discussion. There was overwhelming support for ethical research but rejection of any form of human cloning, destruction of human embryos in research, or germ line intervention. We were disappointed therefore when the Caudron report, voted recently, provided public funding for research in conflict with these guidelines against the constitutional position of my country and three other Member States.
Now some amendments to the Fiori report go further than the Caudron report. Amendment No 238 would allow germ line intervention for therapeutic purposes and this amendment, combined with Amendment No 237, would allow therapeutic cloning. It is ethically wrong to harm or destroy some human lives for the potential benefit of others, and according to key international scientific leaders, research taking place in the United States is proving that using the embryo is unnecessary. New embryology is proving that adult and other post-natal stem cells have vast biomedical potential, as great or greater than embryonic stem cell potential, which is already being described as old embryology.
So there are other successful, ethical and non-controversial alternatives. Let us remember that some scientific breakthroughs turn out to be ethical breakdowns."@en1
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