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World Congress
for Freedom of Scientific Research
the bulletin
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Number 17, October 2010
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A moratorium on reproductive
cloning to be discussed at the 17th session of UNESCO’s International
Bioethics Committee.
UNESCO’S IBC is holding its meeting at Headquarters in Paris. Three subjects
are being debated: the principle of respect for human vulnerability; the
ethical implications of traditional medicine; and human cloning and
governance. According to the Report of the IBC Working Group on
human cloning and international governance, “it appears appropriate to
advance processes towards a more robust mechanism, such as a moratorium or a
convention on prohibition on human reproductive cloning under international
law. (…) Today, due to the sufficient consensus amongst governments of Member
States against human reproductive cloning, it is plausible for the
international community to move towards a convention prohibiting human
reproductive cloning”.
Read more.
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Abortion opponents undercut
Council of Europe resolution on conscientious objection.
Last October 7 the
Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) undercut a resolution
intended to regulate the use of conscientious objection by reproductive
healthcare providers. The PACE resolution as originally proposed recommended
that governments develop comprehensive regulations and guarantee the right to
conscientious objection only to individuals, not to public health facilities.
Read the full press release by the Center for Reproductive Rights.
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The 2010
Nobel Prize for Medicine recognizes scientific achievement beyond ideological
preconceptions.
“The 2010 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to Robert Edwards, thus
recognizing his status as father of IVF and as one who enabled millions of
pregnancies and births worldwide. Furthermore, this recognizes scientific
achievement beyond ideological preconceptions, something that is forced upon
the lives of those Italian citizens who require medical assistance in order
to conceive: in Italy, law 40/2004 prohibits the use of all those options
introduced by Edwards”.
Read the full statement by Filomena Gallo,
vice Secretary of Luca
Coscioni Association for freedom of scientific research
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Assisted reproduction in
Europe. “One of
the things that ESHRE (European Society for Human Reproduction and
Embryology) is doing is to closely monitor reproductive tourism. (…) Patients
mobility around Europe for medical problems has always been considered as a
positive thing because it has been evaluated as a patient’s right to have
access to high-level healthcare but referring to reproduction you are
negatively impressed by the image of patients looking for something strange
or trivial”.
Read on line the full text by Luca Gianaroli, ESHRE Chairman elect, Italy
(from the proceedings of the Second Meeting of the World Congress for Freedom
of Scientific Research).
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