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11 August 2010
Dear supporter,
A draft directive on animal experimentation http://bit.ly/aT91Mz will be debated during the European Parliament’s plenary session on 7 September 2010. If approved, the draft will become European Union (EU) law. The directive could result in scientists experimenting on human embryos instead of animals. Four amendments have been tabled which could stop this happening.
Please contact the members of the European Parliament (MEPs) http://www.europarl.europa.eu/members/expert/groupAndCountry.do?language=EN representing your area and tell them that:
- you are concerned about the draft directive entitled “The protection of animals used for scientific purposes” presented by Elizabeth Jeggle (Germany)
- the directive will be debated during the European Parliament’s plenary session on 7 September 2010
- the directive would require European Union (EU) member-states to “ensure that, wherever possible, a scientifically satisfactory method or testing strategy, not entailing the use of live animals, shall be used instead of a procedure.” (art. 4, para. 1)
- this article could result in scientists experimenting on human embryos instead of animals
- you object to experimentation on human embryos, as human embryos have a right to life and to dignity equal to all other members of the human family
- you want them to vote for four amendments which would protect human embryos and foetal tissue from being used as alternatives to animal testing (amendments 175, 176, 227 and 228 http://www.ecbr.eu/pdf/Amendments%20134-275.pdf).
Please also contact animal rights organisations in your country, explaining to them why these amendments should be passed.
More information in support of these points can be found in the press release by the Commission of the Bishops' Conferences of the European Community (COMECE) http://bit.ly/csaTPX
SPUC has also produced an in-depth background briefing http://bit.ly/bbuIF3 on the draft directive.
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