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The Fiori report on the ethical, legal, economic and social aspects of human genetics is a good report, on which Mrs Montfort had also done a lot of work. Unfortunately, it has been distorted by amendments mainly presented by the Left, aimed at removing all the moral obstacles to genetic research. We are therefore opposed to this distorted text, and in the end, following a last minute u-turn, the European Parliament rejected it, to our great satisfaction.
It is interesting to ask ourselves what conclusions should be drawn from this, particularly with regard to the vote at our last part-session on Article 3 of the research framework programme 2002-2006, presented by means of the Caudron report, which was to decide the conditions under which the European Union would subsidise genetic research. A rather obscure and unsatisfactory amendment was then voted on, in anticipation of the Fiori report, which seemed to authorise the funding of research into therapeutic cloning and research into the stem cells of embryos.
That same amendment, which was introduced today into the Fiori report in order to distort it, has in the end also been broadly rejected by this House. Given that the same text was adopted at the last part-session and then rejected during this one, the least we can say is that the situation is unclear.
We believe that we should preserve the European Parliament’s traditional position of rejecting therapeutic cloning and research into embryos in the name of respecting human dignity."@en1
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