Xavier Breton is also secretary of the law commission of the National Assembly, member of the parliamentary agreement for the family and regional councilor of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes.
Faced with the Covid-19 epidemic, our country is facing formidable emergencies. Health emergency, with the growing flow of contaminated patients which saturates our hospital capacities and with the shortage of masks and protective equipment. Economic emergency, with the brutal slowdown in activities which threatens the survival of many businesses. Social emergency, with inequalities facing the risks of the pandemic which penalize the most disadvantaged and most vulnerable.
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But another emergency is emerging, it is the ethical emergency. Unfortunately, it is too often relegated to the background of our concerns. And yet the ethical questions are far from being ubiquitous. They refer to what our society has most precious: the dignity of the person
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