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"Bioethics bill: the dikes of caution have been broken down"

2020-08-04T18:07:18.543Z


TRIBUNE - It is unreasonable on the part of the government to have a bill adopted on the sly which upsets the principles of the state of persons, argues Jean-René Binet, professor of private law *.


On the night of August 1, 2020, the National Assembly adopted at second reading a bill on bioethics celebrating the triumph of cultural and economic liberalism on issues which are nevertheless marked with the seal of public order. 'acts of the state of the people, the protection of the human body or the integrity of the human species. This withdrawal of the legal imperative in favor of the market, dressed in the garb of individual freedom, should not come as a surprise as it was inscribed as an objective to be achieved from the first stages of what should have been a revision of the law of bioethics but constitutes, in fine, a profound questioning of its very essence.

The deputy LREM Jean-Louis Touraine, rapporteur for the bill, thus developed, in his information report published on January 15, 2019, his conception of French-style bioethics: “At the beginning, prohibitions were essentially formulated, often more by caution that for real reasons of

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Source: lefigaro

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