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rdf:type	lpv_eu:Speech2
dcterms:Date	"2001-11-29"^^xsd:date2
dcterms:Is Part Of	lp_eu:Human genetics2
dcterms:Language	"it"^^xsd:language2
lpv:document identification number	"en.20011129.1.4-015"2
lpv:hasSubsequent	lp_eu:2001-11-29-Speech-4-0162
lpv:speaker	lp:Gianfranco Dell'alba2
lpv:spokenAs	substitute; BUDG (2000-11-16--2002-01-14)3 member; NA (2001-10-03--2004-07-19)3 member; Members from the European Parliament to the Joint Parliamentary Assembly of the Agreement between the African, Caribbean and Pacific States and the European Union (ACP-EU) (1999-10-05--2002-01-14)3 member; CONT (1999-07-21--2002-01-14)3 substitute; Committee on Development and Cooperation (1999-07-22--2002-01-14)3 unknown; Lista Emma Bonino (1999-07-20--2004-07-19)3
lpv:translated text	"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, seldom has Parliament come up against such a sensitive and, at the same time, such an important subject as that dealt with in the Fiori report. This subject is utterly and completely political, a proper subject for the legislator, as we radicals have been trying in vain to make people understand in our country; it is a subject for society, concerning, first and foremost, the millions and millions of people suffering from, so far, incurable diseases, who look to us for an answer which may bring them real hope of health and life. Today we are potentially faced with one of those great changes in the story of human kind, comparable to the discovery of penicillin or vaccines. We are faced with a decisive choice that it would be unrealistic and tragic to hold back from. From this viewpoint, I regret to say, the excellent and instructive work by Mr Fiori has given way to a base text that is the result of the combined provisions of two fundamentalisms that are well rooted in this Parliament, which, like any fundamentalism, would like Europe to stand still while, all around it, the world is moving on. The spirit of Galileo is with us today. For us radicals, today’s choice should be clear: ‘no’ to the Fiori report as it stands; ‘yes’ to most of the amendments tabled, to achieve freedom of scientific research; ‘yes’ to all kinds of therapeutic research that can give life and not death to the life that really exists, not that which is only present in textbooks and now lies in laboratory freezers, waiting to be destroyed; and so ‘yes’ to research on stem cells, which are, in practical terms, more malleable; ‘yes’ to research on supernumerary embryos that have no chance of life; ‘yes’ to therapeutic cloning, which – as stated authoritatively by the Nobel Prize-winner, Professor Dulbecco, only yesterday and the former Italian health minister Mr Veronesi today – has nothing whatever to do with human cloning; in short, ‘yes’ to an adult, secular Europe that is responsible in the matter of research. ***"@en1

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