2023-10-12 08:37:03
The in-vitro fertilization requirements ensure that tens of thousands of “surplus” embryos are stored useless and frozen, which are actually waiting to be “used” for health research. Image: dpa
Will there soon be a wave of modernization in German life protection? At a meeting in Berlin, the chances of a more liberal approach to embryos from the laboratory were explored.
To erase the impression that there is something like a pressure to modernize when dealing with the human embryo, and therefore even a moral compulsion to research embryos, this political project of repression is likely to be a thing of the past this week.
Joachim Müller-Jung
Editor in the features section, responsible for the “Nature and Science” department.
Because a biopolitical avant-garde came together in Berlin at the invitation of the Federal Research Ministry and the National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina to formulate nothing less than the key points for a legislative initiative, which the Passau state and international lawyer Hans-Georg Dederer described as the departure of one “Culture of permission instead of a culture of prohibition, and a culture of dynamism instead of a culture of lethargy” outlined.
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