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Sir Leszek Borysiewicz says Church is wrong on hybrid embryo Bill

The most senior Roman Catholic scientist in Britain has attacked his Church’s opposition to proposed laws that will allow the creation of human-animal embryos for research.

Sir Leszek Borysiewicz made a passionate defence of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill and the science that it will make possible.

He said that the Church was wrong to conduct its campaign in emotive language that misrepresented the nature and purpose of the controversial research.

In an exclusive interview with The Times, Sir Leszek, chief executive of the Medical Research Council, said that in spite of Church teachings on the issue he saw nothing in the experiments or the plans by the Government to regulate them that was incompatible with his faith.

His conscience told him that it was right to support research that promised therapies for devastating diseases such as Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and thus to ease human suffering. He said that many Catholics shared his views.

Full story at The Times.