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"en.20011129.1.4-023"2
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"Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, for once the European Parliament is not lagging behind history. Just as an American company succeeds in cloning a human embryo, the temporary committee on human genetics publishes its report, a report which is, incidentally, an excellent one.
In effect, it protects the human embryo by prohibiting cloning, whether for reproductive or for therapeutic purposes. It prohibits European public funding for research on the human embryo, advising the use of supernumerary embryos for infertile couples, and, finally, making maximum use of work on adult stem cells. Mankind is not the owner of life: it simply has the right to enjoy the use of that life. Human beings cannot, therefore, appropriate for themselves even a part of this heritage, which is, by its very nature, inalienable.
Those who want to get rich by playing the sorcerer’s apprentice will one day have to pay royalties to the Creator. The human embryo should never be reduced to the status of mere laboratory material, or of a tool used for commercial purposes. This is why the legislators must define, for the embryo, a status which fills the current loophole in the law, in particular by forbidding the patenting of living beings. Given that the human genetic mechanism is so fragile and complex, and that it is also associated with the mysterious and the sacred, it would be flying in the face of humanity’s evolution, its past and its future, to reap ephemeral gains under the pretext of carrying out research.
I, and my colleagues in the National Front, defend the integrity and the dignity of human life, from conception to natural death. Those who are opposed to this view have already, unwittingly, entered the realms of barbarism. To manipulate the mystery of life is to condemn the human race to catastrophes even more terrible than those caused by mad cow disease and Creutzfeld-Jakob disease."@en1
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