title: A proposed draft protocol for the European Convention on Biomedicine relating to research on the human embryo and fetus.
abstract: The objective of this paper is to stimulate academic debate on embryo and fetal research from the perspective of the drafting of a protocol to the European Convention on Biomedicine. The Steering Committee on Bioethics of the Council of Europe was mandated to draw up such a protocol and for this purpose organised an important symposium on reproductive technologies and embryo research, in Strasbourg from the 16th to the 18th of December 1996.
authors.affiliation: University of Poitiers, France.
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Byk
mesh_terms: D033041:Embryo Research; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D017041:Ethics Committees / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence; D028744:Ethics Committees, Research; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D005060:Europe; D005260:Female; D033042:Fetal Research; D005333:Fetus; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D038622:Internationality; D033281:Nontherapeutic Human Experimentation; D033282:Parental Consent; D028723:Personhood; D011247:Pregnancy; D037841:Pregnant People; D012106:Research / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence*; D035845:Research Embryo Creation; D018570:Risk Assessment; D012926:Social Control, Formal