%0 Journal Article %A J C Byk %T A proposed draft protocol for the European Convention on Biomedicine relating to research on the human embryo and fetus. %D 1997 %R 10.1136/jme.23.1.32 %J Journal of Medical Ethics %P 32-37 %V 23 %N 1 %X 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. %U https://jme.bmj.com/content/medethics/23/1/32.full.pdf