In 1993 engineers at a German university Heidelberg University made it known that they used 200 adult and child cadavers in their simulated car crash tests. This news sparked some questions if this was necessary. Researchers argued that using human cadavers is needed to make cars safer. Different levels of leaders from across the country go into this debate, saying things such as, Rudolph Hammerschmidt, spokesman for the Roman Catholic German Bishops’ Conference similarly decried the practice, arguing, “Even the dead possess human dignity…this research should be done with manikins”, and Klaus von Trotha, research minister of Baden-Wuerttemberg state, questioned the study: “Our constitution guarantees freedom in scientific research. But the constitution also guarantees the protection of human dignity” (Ethics Unwrapped, 2018). The arguments went back and forth if they should have used dummies or real cadavers. Then it came to be found that Wayne State University in the US was conducting similar experiments. US officials began offering their support for Heidelberg University. George Parker, the associate administrator for research at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration argued, “We need that type of data to find out how people are injured in crashes to know what areas of the body are injured under what conditions.”(Ethics Unwrapped, 2018). The argument, in this case, is if human cadavers are necessary in the research of car crash safety.