Translation of "Aus ethischer sicht" in English

I call on the Commission to consider the ethical dimension of its policy.

From a value-judgement base, however, a policy is necessary because of:

From an ethical point of view, this is not always acceptable.

From an ethical point of view this is a baseless discreation of life.

From an ethical perspective, the circuses that use any animals must be rejected.

From an ethical point of view, this is not always acceptable.

However, a study arm without any intervention would have been questionable from an ethical perspective.

Ethically, this experiment is simply not possible.

From an ethical standpoint it clearly goes further.

I think that most people would find that more ethically acceptable than a treatment that aimed to create some sort of spotless mind.

Against this background a further extensive dose-ranging program would not have been justifiable from an ethical point of view.

From the ethical perspective, on the basis of present experience the benefits of YNSA should no longer be withheld from stroke patients.

This moral certainty is considered the necessary and sufficient basis for an ethically correct course of action.

It reviews whether the research project can be approved from an ethical and legal standpoint.

"Humanly, ethically and politically it is the right thing to do.

Mr President, ladies and gentlemen, the common position which has been submitted today is much clearer and more precise in legal terms than the initial draft, and, thanks to the rapporteur's remarkable and persistent efforts, it is also more ethically acceptable.

We resolutely oppose this as being ethically unacceptable and bad for the image of the sector.

But ethically and socially and in terms of effectiveness it is not the most successful way.

I hope, too, that we will have a debate on what subsidiary activities are appropriate from an ethical point of view when we have a job to do as Members of the European Parliament.

Madam President, the situation which we are experiencing now in this House in respect of these reports and the initiative by Commissioner Monti on the freedom of movement is, thanks to the Council, quite awful from an ethical point of view and an attack on the European Parliament's rights from an institutional point of view.

I think that we should ask ourselves if it is ethically acceptable to support a system that has such an awful effect on a sector of the population that is as weak as children are.

The use of cells that are of sensitive origin from an ethical point of view needs to be specially regulated, if that is not already the case, in the Member States.

From the point of view of ethics, I have no interest in discussing the reasons behind this criminal activity, whether it be for reasons of witchcraft, organ trafficking or whatever.

So I think when you think about it, this tends to transfigure your views, whereas what matters for ethical purposes and moral considerations, not so much the fact of consciousness, but the degree and the complexity of consciousness.

So think about -- (Laughter) Think about the ethical implications of that.

From the ethical standpoint, there should be an upper limit of pain, suffering and distress, above which animals should never be subjected in scientific procedures.

The classical swine fever epidemic and the recent foot-and-mouth epidemic also revealed that a disease control policy based entirely on stamping out of infected and contaminated animals is questionable from an ethical and environmental point of view and is publicly less and less accepted.