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Tyranny
of the Present Alexander
Kissler |
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This article has been translated from its original German using AltaVista's 'Babel Fish'. Some inadequacies are bound to be present. The original can be found at Süddeutsche Zeitung. Each divorce has its prehistory: Not only the Iraq war divided Europe, Saddam Hussein drove Spain to the side of the USA and did not only let Germany its love for France discover. On 6 November 2002 the same contractors faced each other already once. But while the conflict management runs in things Iraq on full routes, the confrontation of the last autumn could return soon the more harscher. At that time, in the plenum of the United Nations, the French-German alliance blocked a world-wide, total clone prohibition, which Spain and the USA had demanded. Few weeks, before the messages of a baby cloned by the alleged birth whirled the Weihnachtszeit in disorder, the German delegation a two-stage plan defended. Since neither a proscription of reproduktiven cloning is internationally majorityable for the production of humans still another proscription of "therapeutic" cloning for the production from embryos to research purposes, one is to aim at "first" only the prohibition of reproduktiven cloning. Meanwhile the times changed: The French and also the German parliament assigned their governments to use itself for the proscription of both Klonierungsarten. The French minister of health explained in this sense: "the therapeutic clones opens clones of humans door and gate for that." The Federal Government makes however no institutes to convert the resolution of the Bundestag. During the debate to the clone prohibition the Ministers Bulmahn, Schmidt and Fischer shone just like chancellors Schroeder by absence. If the research minister is responded to the vote of the federal daily, she explains in the most beautiful Bulmahn German: "we may slam the door shut for the biomedical research not completely. On international level one cannot make a final decision to therapeutic clones." The fact that it is thereby in contrast to the German embryo law for the protection and also for the will of the federal daily does not care it. "first" the international aspects would have to be clarified? Selbiges is to happen from tomorrow on to the citizens of Berlin conference "clones in biomedical research and reproduction". Afterwards one knows further marriages, because then, the facts would then lie on the table. The biomedical facts are however moody associate; they show up that, which understands to lure them. Much depends after whose to whistle the facts to dance begins. And there the list of subscribers does not leave doubts that the minister of its conference a vote expects herself in favor of a large research release. Skeptiker are to be looked for with the magnifying glass. Among the 41 advisers the researchers and Euphoriker dominate, only five participants represent a weighing to sceptical attitude.At The Tree of Mankind The sense of the whole enterprise becomes particularly clear with the advisers from the United States: "only one of the four participants represents the official position of the American UN delegation." Nigel Cameron must know it, because the publisher of the magazine Ethics and Medicine, which and director of the Council advises founders for Biotechnology policy as an expert the American congress -- so already in July 2001, before the house of representatives with 265 votierte to 176 voices for a comprehensive clone prohibition. Cameron was to guest in the white house on that morning in April 2002, when the president changed handwritten the text of his speech: Its warnings of an towards-optimized society became still clearer, still more passionately. But, it means in old-European scholar rooms, does not act George W. Bush here not doppelzuengig? Doesn't it want to outlaw internationally those techniques, to which it leaves free run in the own country? US doesn't industry profit at most of a prohibition of "therapeutic" cloning, because their test series progressed far? Nigel Cameron according to is correct the opposite. Bush is personally in a total clone prohibition interested, because also the American senate, the end of the yearly will then co-ordinate, the vote of the house of representatives will follow. Bush may have in Europe a bad press, one is nevertheless certain: This man brings to end, which he planned once.But even with the president in the back the American life and Embryonenschuetzer have heavy conditions. In contrast to the Pharma companies, whose lobby becomes larger with each cheque, those are notoriously klammen clone opponents on their idealism and dependent on the strength of the arguments. "nothing smaller", thus Cameron, "than the future of the human kind stands on the play. If humans can be artificially manufactured, then we experience the tyranny of the current over the future generation." In order to reject experiments at the embryo, one does not have to award by any means the status of a person to this. "isn't it sufficient that embryos are the smallest members of the mankind family, the tiny beginning of the human life?" Against Right and ParliamentThe newest messages from the laboratories show however that embryos become ever more in demand as research objects: At the University OF Pennsylvania inconceivable succeeded to the German master cell researcher Hans Schoeler. Schoeler proved that embryonale main cells of mice without suggestion can develop themselves further from the outside in Eizellen and probably even in embryos. This young remote generation changes possibly the parameters of the current bioethical debate completely. Should Schoelers be realizations on humans transferable, then leaves itself? perhaps, sometime, a daily? Spare fabrics for patients breed, without for the production of embryonaler main cells women would have to donate Eizellen in great quantities. The fright ghost of a new prostitution for the well-being of the research and for the health of the possessing would be gebannt. Over to find out, whether these conclusions are permitted, it would have to be researched however only with Primaten, later also at human main cells? whereby the well-known dilemma returns the fact that such research is permitted in Germany only if one itself on the few existenten, outside of Germany before 1 January limits 2001 won master cell lines. Besides the fundamental ethical problem remains existing: Embryo, those? in whatever way always? in the Petri plate to be artificially produced, in order to infer from them as raw material material for the fabric breeding main cells, must be destroyed. The Verzweckung of humans takes place in any case. In this direction aim the strategies of the Pharmaindustrie, hopes of the researchers and expectations of many European governments. Edelgard Bulmahn in Brussels has their most faithful allied ones. 6. Research master program wants to use the European Union to promote from the next year to the using embryo research generously. Although such experiments are forbidden after German right, the proclamation of the minister was missing. And with an internal meeting on the European Union guideline "quality and security of cells and fabrics" are to have intervened Germany in the past week together with Great Britain in favor of "therapeutic" cloning. DORK as clone-ridden now to go out? Do the United Nations in the autumn, with the second attempt, which follows American initiative, become? Above all the behavior of the Islamic states is difficult to estimate; in passed the autumn, Nigel Cameron, would have thus bent themselves some States of the "pressure and the promises" of Germany and France. If the Promoter of the failed two-stage plan takes the Voten of their parliaments seriously, then an enormous suction effect could proceed from a French-German reorientation. The danger of the abuse of the techniques would not be thereby gebannt, probably however reduced. In addition however Mrs. Bulmahn would have to jump over the long shade, which their conference of clone now already throws. |
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