Embryo's maken voor onderzoek: Eerst niet, nu wel?

Translated title of the contribution: Making embryos for research: First prohibited, now allowed?

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Abstract

The Dutch Embryos Act (2000) contains a temporary ban on the creation of embryos for research, meaning that, at present, only research using "spare" IVF embryos is allowed. Recently, the government has announced a plan to lift this ban. This is in line with the original intention of the Act, which already contains conditions for research with specially created embryos that will come into force after the lifting of the ban, including the restriction that the research must be expected to yield new insights in the domains of infertility, assisted reproduction, hereditary or congenital disorders, or transplantation medicine. The government plans announced allow research only in the first three of these domains, adding the further criterion that the research must be 'directly relevant for clinical application'. According to the government, the reason for these additional restrictions was the need to protect 'human dignity'. The authors of this paper are not convinced.
Translated title of the contributionMaking embryos for research: First prohibited, now allowed?
Original languageDutch
Article numberD966
JournalNederlands Tijdschrift voor Geneeskunde
Volume161
Issue number4
Publication statusPublished - 1 Jan 2017

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