The statement of the "Dveri" movement that in vitro fertilization with donated reproductive material from Spain and Denmark requires a special moral and ethical evaluation because the mixing of genetic material "may affect the change of the genome of future generations" was an indescribable own goal.
Wanting to highlight their mission as guardians of "our religious and traditional values", Dveri went into Nazism, and the public heartily condemned them.
Jelena Begović, Minister of Technological Development and Innovation, invited Dveri to explain "what a clean Serbian genome looks like." And the beauty of the Balkans is the great diversity of genes, and that's why we like to brag about how beautiful and different we are in Serbia. And that is good from the point of view of the principles that rule in nature, because when the same genetics cross, it leads to the weakening and disappearance of the species. It enables the survival of a species."
"Shame on you," wrote Prime Minister Ana Brnabići, reminding that "each of us knows someone who went abroad for artificial insemination or is about to go, who fought in various cities from Prague, Thessaloniki, Skopje, Athens, because artificial insemination Fertilization could not be done in Serbia until now."
Dragan Šutanovac, the former Minister of Defense, asks "if this is not fascism, then what is it?" In the first 10 months, 25 women were killed in domestic violence, maybe the genome should be changed".
Nebojša Stefanović, former vice president of the Government of Serbia, assessed that this request to Dveri "represents the open spread of Nazi ideas and, as such, must be sanctioned." Instead of these decisions receiving the support of everyone, including the opposition, because they are deeply humane and solve one of the biggest problems of today's Serbia, we are hearing monstrous ideas about genetic, early and national purity from Boško Obradović.
Singer Seka Aleksić, who has been waiting for offspring for a long time, was particularly upset by this announcement, so she joined the condemnations of the public and politicians and tweeted:
"You insulted all the people who fight for posterity in this way, shame on you." Who are you to decide and give opinions? As a man, a mother, a human being, not a stone, not a rock, not a building, these kinds of statements scare and worry me. They incite all that is bad in man, inflame hatred, inflame the sadness and despair and anger of all those couples who have been fighting for offspring for years."
The League of Social Democrats of Vojvodina stated that Dveri was "spreading dangerous theses that the citizens of Europe were exposed to during the Nazi madness during the Second World War." They asked the Minister of Health, Danica Grujičić, to react.
The Freedom and Justice Party (SSP) evaluates Dveri's statement as "a reflection of primitivism and non-recognition of science, and in the political sense, these are attitudes typical of racism." If this is kept quiet, people like this and others like them will soon announce that those who marry members of any other nation are not good Serbs. "Families born in mixed marriages and their children will become legitimate targets of extremists," the SSP warned.
"All this has nothing to do with politics, but only with common sense, and it is everyone's duty to defend and defend society from such false patriots and their anti-civilizational attitudes," said the Party of Freedom and Justice.
However, the Dveri movement, i.e. their leader Boško Obradović, does not falter. He said that "when someone is attacked simultaneously by Ana Brnabić, Nenad Čanak, Dragan Šutanovac and Dragan Đilas, then he knows that he is on the right path", and called on the government "to hold a public debate on the subject of artificial insemination".
Dveri maintains that the real goal of the latest initiative is the development of surrogate motherhood in Serbia, the commercialization of pregnancy and a roundabout, illegal way for gay couples to adopt children in violation of all the laws of the state of Serbia, "as Brnabić was the first to do." The authorities cannot be trusted, even when they do something seemingly noble and "import" donor reproductive material from abroad for the purposes of artificial insemination, but in fact it is extra profit for companies close to them, Obradović emphasized and asked why Serbia does not have a domestic bank of reproductive material and why it has not been involved. the campaign to increase the number of domestic donors of reproductive material is already "imported" from abroad?
By the way, in 2019, the first bank of reproductive cells was opened in Serbia at the Clinic for Gynecology and Obstetrics of the University Clinical Center, and couples will be able to 'order' spermatozoa or eggs from abroad through this clinic.
At that time, the director of this clinic was prof. Aleksandar Stefanović said that "unfortunately, despite the great effort, and despite the media campaign, there was not enough awareness and enough donors who would be willing to donate their cells so that other couples who do not have adequate gametes could have offspring", and that cooperation with banks of reproductive cells abroad will therefore be established.
From December 10, in vitro fertilization will be possible in Serbia at the expense of the state and donated cells imported from abroad.
Until now, in vitro fertilization with donated reproductive material could not be done in Serbia, neither at the expense of the state, nor with couples who paid for the procedure themselves, and from December 10, it will be possible in both cases to import donated material and to perform the entire procedure performs in vitro fertilization in Serbia.
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