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François-Xavier Bellamy: "Bioethics, incomprehensible acceleration"

2020-07-27T15:52:30.774Z


TRIBUNE - While the health crisis has revealed the weaknesses of our health system and that the priority should be to relaunch, the examination in the middle of summer of the bioethics bill can only be an ideological choice, believes the philosopher and European deputy*. However, this text deserves a more in-depth debate, as it opens up dizzying possibilities, preparing the arrival of certain forms of eugenics and even surrogacy.


Why such an acceleration? In the aftermath of a global pandemic, on the eve of an incredible economic crisis, the National Assembly is meeting this summer in extraordinary session. A text considered as a priority: the opening of the "PMA for all" ... There are emergencies that betray ideological obsessions rather than meeting the vital needs of society. This is, it is true, not new: since the announcement of this measure in September 2017, the government will have put a lot of energy into concealing, failing to be able to solve them, the many problems caused by this reform.

Read also: Eugenics, surrogacy, "shared motherhood", chimeric embryos… These bioethical dilemmas likely to ignite the debate

Agnès Buzyn devoted her efforts to the question of knowing "if a man in civil status could become a mother" , or how Medicare could reimburse a benefit in the absence of any illness. Meanwhile, the public hospital was going through a major crisis, the same government was delisting on drugs to treat Alzheimer's disease, and no one was addressing the fact.

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Source: lefigaro

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