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• W2021093030 abstract "The country's authorities are considering changes to Germany's strict controls over human stem-cell research. Michael Gross reports. The country's authorities are considering changes to Germany's strict controls over human stem-cell research. Michael Gross reports. Germany is one of ten EU countries that explicitly ban production of human embryonic stem cells. In 2002, the Bundestag tried to draw a line under the heated discussion over the promises and ethical concerns with a compromise legislation that allowed import of stem-cell lines that had been created before January 1, 2002. Five years later, however, researchers are clamouring for a change to the law, as any surviving cell lines from that time are now seriously out of date. In May, the new stem-cell debate moved to a parliamentary level, when the Bundestag committee in charge of education and research held a day-long debate on the issue. The funding agency Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG), representing researchers, proposed to scrap the date limit altogether and allow the import of all stem-cell lines available. Furthermore, the DFG would like to abolish the threat of prison sentences to researchers who take part in the creation of stem cells, arguing that the current legal situation creates insecurity among researchers who, via international collaborations, might be held responsible for actions that break German laws. On the other side of the trenches, several religious organisations are trying to defend the current version of the Embryonenschutzgesetz, or law for the protection of embryos. They argue that a removal of the time limit would allow German researchers to have embryos “killed on demand” abroad. The protestant bishop Wolfgang Huber has suggested a new compromise, namely moving the time limit closer to the present, which would give German researchers access to new developments but not to new stem-cell lines created on demand. Across the political parties, the positions are complicated. The small liberal party, FDP, currently in opposition, has handed in a draft legislation that would essentially follow the DFG suggestions and scrap the time limit. While this approach may find support in the Linkspartei (Left party) and parts of the governing social democratic SPD, it was criticized harshly by parts of Angela Merkel's CDU, which is traditionally dominated by catholics, and by the Green Party. Similar divisions are even found within the government formed by SPD and CDU. Chancellor Angela Merkel, herself a scientist, has supported the efforts to update the legislation. Her research minister, Annette Schavan, however, is a committed catholic and would fiercely oppose unlimited import (let alone home production) of stem cells. She is said to be open to the compromise of shifting the time limit, but stated ahead of the committee meeting that she will “under no circumstances abolish it”. Voters are equally divided. A snap poll just ahead of the committee meeting showed 65% in favour of changing the law, but it appears unlikely that any drastic change could find a similar majority in the electorate, in parliament, or indeed in the government. Now that the conflicting views have been exchanged once more, it is up to Merkel's government to find a way out of the dilemma. If she wants to avoid a rerun of the fierce public debate of 2001/2002, she might end up taking the easiest way out of the dilemma, namely changing nothing but the date. If Christian critics could live with the date rule in 2002, chances are they will be able to live with a similar rule, only with a more recent date filled in, in 2007." @default.
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