A 'right' to make test tube babies?
Court ruling on artificial reproduction dismisses morality, undermines family
Posted: November 13, 2010 12:45 am Eastern
By Brian Fitzpatrick © 2010 WorldNetDaily
The European Center for Law and Justice is condemning a Strasbourg, France, court for declaring that "the wish for a child" is a fundamental right protected by the European Convention.
The European Court of Human Rights has decided that infertile couples could use any type of medical procedure to create a child, even procedures banned by their home country over bioethical concerns.
The ECLJ asserted the decision undermines the traditional definition of families as "biologically and genetically linked," rejects "moral considerations" as grounds for banning some forms of artificial reproduction and may enable same-sex partners to demand medical assistance in creating a child.
"This decision is legally and ethically unacceptable; it diminishes the state's sovereignty in ethical matters, it is not inferred from the European Convention, and it opens the doors to many other ethical abuses," said Grégor Puppinck, director of the ECLJ, in a statement.
"[If] the concerns based on moral considerations or on social acceptability are not appropriate to regulate biotechnology, what is the purpose of bioethics?" Puppinck added. FULL STORY
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