On March 3, 2020, the French National Consultative Committee on Ethics (“CCNE”) published the "Ethical Challenges of Gene Editing: Between Hope and Caution". The members had unanimously adopted these recommendations on September 19, 2019. This statement referred to as...
Although the final version of the bioethics law has yet to be voted in France, the Senate recently removed the article which bans the creation of transgenic embryos. The international pressure is growing; consequently, on March 3, 2020, ethics councils in 3 countries...
The vote for the first reading of the Bioethics law was held in the French Senate on February 4, 2020, passing by 10 votes (153 votes for, 143 against). Although we appreciate the attempts made to amend the draft law, it has not fundamentally changed. The Senators...
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In the plenary session on February 4, 2020, the French Senate voted the bioethics bill. However, this text does not deserve to be called bioethical. It threatens the rights of the most vulnerable in our society by ignoring the fundamental principles of human ecology....
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The result of the recent examination of the French bioethics law by the Senate shows that this law cannot be simply amended. The Senators must vote on the amended text in a plenary session scheduled for February 4. Ethics is supposed to protect human rights, life and...
As the French Senate begins to examine the bioethics bill today, Alliance VITA urges the senators to be bold and wise, but cautious to amend the text while there is still time. Caroline Roux, Alliance VITA’s Assistant General Delegate insists: "We call upon the...
