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"I voted, as did 191 MEPs, against the resolution on the patenting of essential biological processes. Indeed, behind that legal jargon lurks one of the most important struggles at this moment in time: what place is given to therapeutic freedom in an open and modern society? We are entitled to question the motivations of the signatories of this resolution, who ‘almost clandestinely’ brought it as far as plenary, when what is at issue appears to be the legitimate respect for species variety, in this instance, broccoli and tomatoes … These appealing demands ill disguise a struggle of quite different proportions: the future of scientific research in Europe. The unnatural coalition between the Group of the European People’s Party (Christian Democrats), the Group of the Progressive Alliance of Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament, the Group of the Alliance of Liberals and Democrats for Europe and the Group of the Greens/European Free Alliance has let its mask slip with the adoption of amendments which glorify the European judges’ very troubling decision of 18 October 2011 which excludes any possibility of patenting the human embryo, despite the fact that these cells are used to treat neurological diseases. It is troubling indeed that scientific obscurantism is back with a vengeance. Liberals, progressives and humanists must form a coalition now to ensure that, in the Eighth Research programme, the ethics of hope triumph, which is what the majority of patients and researchers are calling for."@en1
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