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We have voted against this report which, even amended, is unacceptable. The fact that it contains huge scientific errors is not the most serious thing. It is above all steeped, from beginning to end, in an obscurantist attitude to science and its applications. Some research may lead to excesses? No doubt. Especially in a society where the application will be carried out by private companies whose objective is profit. But why prohibit certain of them which are connected to genetic research, why refuse public funding for researchers whose work, the future will tell, may be decisive in terms of improving the lives of countless human beings?
We voted for some of the good intentions of the text where they were not restricted to being purely platonic, particularly in relation to the protection of workers, the disabled and people suffering rare diseases. But we refute all its reasoning, the basis of which is clerical, reactionary and misogynist. We reject anything that goes against the right of women to control their own bodies and to choose whether or not to terminate a pregnancy. With regard to patents, not only are we completely against any idea of patenting living beings, but we are against the equally horrendous patents on medical products which cannot be used for the care of millions of human beings too poor to pay. More generally, we are against all forms of patent on inventions which are not aimed at protecting the inventor but at safeguarding monopoly profits for the capitalist groups which market them.
It is not research which must be restrained, but, rather, we must put an end to this economy based on profit. Since we trust in the ability of humanity to, one day, govern its economy and social life, freeing itself from the hindrances of private property, we confirm our trust in the work of the researchers and in what science can contribute to a society liberated from exploitation, the rule of capital and obscurantism."@en1
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