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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, I, too, would like to thank Ms Yannakoudakis for this report, in which she highlights a very important issue. I dare say that as a practising father, I myself am part of the programme, as my wife and I had the cord blood of all four of our children harvested and the stem cells preserved. However, the unfortunate and sad fact is that a mere 1% of all women giving birth in Europe do the same. I therefore find the aspects mentioned in the report very important. These include encouraging mothers to make use of this option as widely as possible.
There is another very important principle: we must provide all our compatriots access to this possibility. Today, stem cells can only be stored in private banks at considerable cost. Less well-off people who lack the funds to access this option bar their own children and themselves from this possibility. I therefore think that this issue must be settled. An additional principle I find very important is that a single quality assurance system should be put in place in this field in order to eliminate potential problems. Medicine still has much ahead of it in terms of development. Today, we are able to use only a fraction of the potential that lies in stem cells and stem cell procedures, and I therefore think that this definitely deserves support and I myself am in favour of it."@en1
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