Revision of the laws of bioethics. A blow of sword into water?

After having regarded the "tax carbon" as a historical choice of France, Nicolas Sarkozy declared: "This tax causes debates and it is normal. It is a great reform like the decolonization, the election of the president of the Republic by the vote for all, the abolition of the capital punishment and the legalization of the abortion". Confusion of the kinds. After this brilliant declaration, one can all await revision of the laws concerning the bioethics. Which must intervene with the beginning of the year 2010.

In three big cities of France were organized General states of the bioethics, history to say that all the French were invited to express itself. Of course one kept oneself well, with some exceptions, to invite the defenders of the life. Vast pantalonnade with the use of the naive ones. A little as on Internet where certain sites require the opinion of the ones and others via surveys (Le Figaro, Orange portal etc). But actually it seems that the marks were already given by a report/ratio dated April 6th: it emanates from the Council of State fixing the limits of acceptable. This text relates to several subjects like the palliative care, the donations of organs, the gift of the gametes. As regards euthanasia, it refers approximately to the law Leonetti which in theory rejects any euthanasia; but it with the disadvantage of regarding the hydration by parenteral way as well as the food as belonging to the care concerning the therapeutic one. In light it is possible to let die a person of hunger and thirst, whereas recent discovered shows that the comatose deep ones continued to have a sensitive life. What Mr Leonetti did not certainly know. Notwithstanding this question, it is rather extraordinary that this UMP deputy, ex-radical, involved a at the end of 2008 remonstrance of UNO in Holland concerning the conditions for application of the euthanasia to the Netherlands. The elderly, from fear of being euthanasiées, will take refuge in Westphalia or the Rhineland. In addition, the left has just made once more an attempt to legalize the euthanasia as well, as the assisted suicide.

Not with the clonage

 The Council of State, in well built chapters, does not mention the question of the abortion regarded as acquired. He considers that the statute of the embryo poses problem insofar as this last is a potential human life. By doing this, while endorsing the research considered as legitimate, it excludes creation from it. Therefore, exit the cloning. It takes note of the potentialities that such research can involve. He considers that the current mode making it possible to work on the embryos in déshérence is satisfactory. He is the same for the embryonic original cells which of it result and whose effectiveness is doubtful. But it is necessary to read between the lines. Actually this type of research is entrusted to Pechanski within the framework of the INSERM and the ISTEM (financed by Telethon). It has just known a bitter failure by grafting this type of cells on patients reached of the disease of Huttington (or dances of Guy saint): an appalling disease characterized by brutal and uncontrolled movements of the members. After one better, the patients died of a canceration of the known as cells. It also has just stated to have succeeded, starting from embryonic original cells (of mouse), to remake scraps of skin. Quid of canceration? Quid of the rejection? Not a word. Or for a long time one cultivates fragments of healthy skin of flarings. And jointly the Lejeune Foundation gave an account of two successes in the épidermique field of repair of burns victim : one starting from cells of osseous marrow, the other starting from the original cells of the umbilical cord quite simply injected in situ.

The elimination of the weakest

After this answer in half color, is approached the question of the prenatal diagnosis. They are actually punctures of amniotic liquid intended to collect fetal cells in suspension, then to examine them. The sanction in the event of anomaly engraves or of terminal illness involves the abortion in general late, gladly, badly liking. Such is the current law. In practice when Frydman is praised to make late abortions on club-feet or palatine slits, it does not respect any the conditions. But it has good game to say that the terms are vague. And its notoriety prevents him from legal proceeding. Who would have interest there? In any case, neither the family, neither the State, nor its own pocket so far he can ask extrafees . And indeed the terms of "serious anomaly and terminal illness" are vague. A simple example: the diabetes is a grave disease and incurable being satisfied to look after it and not to cure it. Lastly, history to say that it is with the current, the Council of State mentions the blood test making it possible to detect the probabilities of trisomy in the child in utero. He advises to practice it as soon as possible. Translation: as long as to make, better is worth to early kill than late.

A eugenism which does not dare express itself

Oddly it is mentioned by the Council of State only the homoparentality (thus adoption of children by the homosexual ones) is an acceptable option. Nothing astonishing that a humorist qualified this institution of the Council of Touched. But procreation medically assisted could not intervene in this case of figure. Moreover nothing is not written on the question of the surrogate mothers. Lastly, on the question of the diagnosis preimplantatory (taking away of cells on the embryo to detect a fetal anomaly), the Council of State evokes the eugenism which in the final analysis would be subjected to the appreciation of the parents. In the content an individual eugenism whose State would be made the executor, but leaving freedom of choice to the parents.What it will occur now. Roselyne Bachelot, Minister for Health, decided against the extension of research on the embryos. Sarkozy is not favorable to the surrogate mothers. Liking the personalities from the left-wing polities as it is known, he listened to the woman of Jospin. This probably explains that. Mrs. Agazinski, psychoanalyst, are formally opposite there. Thus, taking into account what we know at present, the revision of the laws of bioethics rather seems a blow of sword in water.

The desires of Pr Rene Frydman

Nevertheless it is not impossible that the request for generalization of the preimplantatory diagnosis required by Frydman is taken into account. The father of the first baby test-tube recommends his generalization. The number of in vitro fertilizations is of order 150.000 per annum with 5000 euros the unit. With this expenditure the assumption of responsibility of premature is added born from this technique: the embryonic reductions on multiple pregnancies, the varied tumors, in particular cancerous of which can be reached the new-born babies, the care of various malformations (hare nozzles, digestive and cardiac attacks, backwardnesses). A whole pathology precisely dependant on this manner of making which breaks nature. However in vitro fertilization obtains positive test only in 17% of the cases. It is also necessary to count the money spent to keep the supernumerary embryos, research of the parents having to give their agreement so that the embryo is used for research, the maternal depressions related to failures etc This eagerness of procreation, according to the remarks of Jean-François Mattei and Axel Kahn, has an absolutely astronomical cost of about two billion euros accounting for 10% of the deficit of the Social security, which closes the eyes on multiple fecundations or old women whose hope of procreation is negligible.

Finally, in fact, financial considerations will regulate the life or the death of smallest among the human ones.