A compass to navigate the maze of biomedicine and biomedical ethics!

A "Progress", we read:
"Outside of a handful of visionaries, quickly identified, and which one can think they would be punished as they deserve, who would have interest in transforming the cloning criminal activity? A as to agitate fantasies, some Do they realize they work to discredit the research? Criminalize, in the twenty-first century, research on therapeutic cloning also appear stupid than oppose, in the early twentieth century, the generalization of the vaccine. First, because no embryo research, I can not stress it enough, we will not be able tomorrow to master self-replication of our own stem cells; then because it is contradictory, and tell all dishonest, promote organ donation and to prohibit those who would most need to resort to cell deposit that are hundreds of thousands of frozen surplus embryos.

What is needed today to save through transplantation, the life of a patient whose liver or kidneys are severely affected? Nothing more than a donor, that is, sometimes the impossible .... Wait for the death of a young man or a young woman in the prime of life and whose organ will be compatible with his body: this is the daily life of thousands of patients, many know they will disappear without having the chance to enjoy the misfortune of another. This other whose body was no future on this earth, except that of saving the life of a stranger ...
Now look what happens for frozen embryos. Having not been used to ensure offspring couples from which they come, they are nearly a hundred thousand a year to pile up in freezers in our laboratories and our research institutes. No doubt this picture she will shock some, but it corresponds to a reality of these little men in power do not have a future on earth than saving uneven traffic which we will take a kidney, heart, or liver. Yet many countries prohibit it uses for medical research, even in the very short term, to save lives ... In France, exceptions are possible and reform is envisaged, as was said, but not yet adopted, far from it. "
Professor Bernard Debré Hospital's Urology Department Head Cochin, Paris, author of "Dictionary lovers of medicine", published by Editions Plon, September 2008. [The quoted passage is on p. 447-448].
Plon, 2008.
"Save uneven traffic which we will take a kidney, heart or liver." The death certificate of organ donors is problematic on ethical. Professor Debre B. puts his foot in it, escaping the ideological pressure which leads the medical profession as a whole to promote organ donation through these ethical problems in silence. At the same time, guidance is emerging, as it is, today, to take the direction that will solve tomorrow ethical problems today. "Save uneven traffic which we will take a kidney, heart or liver." Phrase "cat among the pigeons", to meditate by the medical profession as a whole and by health users. Thank you Professor B. Debré.