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"We have heard from Commissioner Dalli the very cautious position of the European Commission regarding research on stem cells from cord blood. This is hardly surprising. The Commission proposed and pushed through in the Seventh Framework Programme an enormous package of support for contentious stem cell research and is afraid to admit that this research failed to fulfil expectations. Moreover, it is now clear that the research on stem cells obtained from the bodies of unborn children did not produce anything like the results from research on cells obtained from cord blood. Until recently, this blood was regarded as biological waste. In light of the latest reports of successful experiments and even treatments using stem cells from cord blood, how can the Commission defend the morally unacceptable production of human embryos for research purposes? Also, why has Commissioner Dalli not presented us today with a concrete plan for the Commission to increase the percentage of cord blood collected at birth, instead of a meaningless opinion? I hope it is because his staff are still hard at work on such a plan. I assume that the Commission will propose a mechanism in the plan which will relieve parents of the burden of paying for the collection and subsequent storage of cord blood. I also expect that the plan will include a reassessment of priorities in the area of stem cell research."@en1
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