Ensure early prevention and containment
On August 13, the National Assembly Standing Committee commented on a number of major issues on the reception and revision of the draft Law on Prevention and Combat of Human Trafficking (amended).
Chairwoman of the Judicial Committee Le Thi Nga presented a report on reception and revision, stating that some delegates suggested adding the act of buying and selling fetuses to the draft law as a basis for fighting against the law. Indeed, the situation of human trafficking agreements when still in the fetus.
Regarding this content, the Standing Committee of Justice found that fetuses have not been identified as human beings, so regulating the sale and purchase of fetuses in the concept of human trafficking is inappropriate.
However, in reality, fetal trading is taking place, for the purpose of buying and selling the child after it is born, and this trading agreement is the premise of human trafficking.
Therefore, to ensure prevention and early prevention, the bill is supplemented with a clause (clause 2) stipulating the strictly prohibited acts: "trading and selling fetuses; agreements to buy and sell human beings while they are still pregnant." fetus".
The issue remains controversial
Meanwhile, discussing this issue, Chairman of the Law Committee Hoang Thanh Tung agreed to add a regulation banning human trafficking agreements from the time of fetus to the bill.
Mr. Tung asked to clarify whether there are any cases of buying and selling fetuses that are not human trafficking? Because if this is the case, it is not covered by the Law on Prevention and Combat of Human Trafficking.
National Assembly General Secretary Bui Van Cuong also agreed with the addition of regulations prohibiting the trading of fetuses. However, further consideration is needed to write more rigorously.
Mr. Cuong analyzed the science of human biology and nature expressed through a number of biological functions such as breathing, eating, drinking, sleeping, movement, excretion...
Biologically, the fetus reaches a certain stage, ensuring the conditions of a natural person. The difference is that the environment exists in the mother's womb. In terms of law, regulations also recognize the inheritance of the pregnant person.
And Chairman of the Social Committee Nguyen Thuy Anh pointed out that fetuses are a "very controversial" issue in the world. This person basically agrees with the regulations in the draft. That means prohibiting the sale and purchase of fetuses and agreements to buy and sell human beings while still in the fetus.
However, Chairman of the Social Committee Nguyen Thuy Anh said that fetuses cannot be defined as human beings. Because if so, abortion would be considered murder. Therefore, the current treatment as in the draft law is appropriate.
Deputy Director of the Supreme People's Procuracy Nguyen Quang Dung stated that fetal trafficking and determining human trafficking will be very difficult for law enforcement and protection agencies.
Meanwhile, the law regulates human trafficking, if the concept of a fetus as a person would be controversial.
"We set the scope at a level so that the implementation process can be carried out smoothly. I agree to the human trafficking agreement from when I was a fetus, but including fetal trafficking is very difficult to implement. The scope is up to us. We adjust, not expand, everything cannot be done" - Mr. Dung stated his opinion.
