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Cardinal attacks Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill
Cardinal Keith O'Brien will use his Easter Sunday Homily on 23 March 2008 to launch a powerful attack on the Government's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill currently going through Parliament.Hear the Cardinal's views...
In the homily, the Cardinal will describe the proposed legislation as "a monstrous attack on human rights, human dignity and human life" adding: "In some other European countries one could be jailed for doing what we intend to make legal"
Cardinal O'Brien will also accuse Gordon Brown of denying Labour MPs "the right to vote according to their conscience" and backing a law which will "add to the 2.2 million human embryos already destroyed or experimented upon".
Full story and text of the homily at the Scottish Catholic Media Office. Audio at the SCMO's podcast page.
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