ZENIT: UK Bishops on Embryology Bill
Bishops Say There Is “Real Danger” of Worse Laws
LONDON, SEPT. 29, 2008 (Zenit.org).- If Catholics don’t act now, there is a “real danger” that abortion on demand could become a reality in the United Kingdom, warn the bishops there.
This was the message of a two-page leaflet that Archbishop Peter Smith, chair of the Department of Christian Responsibility and Citizenship of the bishops’ conference of England and Wales, sent to priests on Thursday.
He asked them to circulate the information in their parishes ahead of the forthcoming third reading of the Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill. The leaflet was distributed as a publication of the bishops’ conference of England and Wales.
The Human Fertilization and Embryology Bill allows for the creation of human-animal hybrids, the creation of “savior siblings,” legislates that fathers are not a necessary prerequisite for seeking in vitro fertilization, and sets the upper limit for abortions at 24 weeks of gestation.
