Romanian Democrat Liberal To Push Law Banning Human Cloning

Giurgiu told a news conference Friday that the normative act is aimed to prevent the possibility of human cloning in the future, since „humans have dignity, which needs to be respected”.

„This law is needed to ensure the observance of human rights and correlation with concerned EU legislation, on the bioethics segment, including by covering the legislative void created by the lack of a ban on human cloning to therapeutic or reproductive ends,” Giurgiu explained.

According to Giurgiu, Romania ratified several European Conventions on the protection of human rights, but these conventions do not include bans on cloning, and only ban the creation of human embryos with the purpose of research or intervention on the human genome.

In addition, the draft, which will be pushed by Giurgiu in Parliament next week, bans commerce with human embryos.