the bishops are speaking..........................

In a strongly worded homily preached yesterday at St Mirin's Cathedral in
paisley, Bishop Philip Tartaglia described the current " Human Fertilisation
and Embryology Bill" as a " state-sponsored attack on unborn human life".

The latest twisted enterprise is legislation soon to be presented by the Government at Westminster which would allow the creation of human-animal embryos. You should know that such procedures are banned in other countries. They have rightly been described by the President of the Pontifical Academy for Life as a “monstrous act against human dignity”, and I am sure that that is the instinctive reaction of our moral reason.

Here is what he said

"It will not surprise you to know that this experimentation is backed by commercial interests who see in it the potential for profit. However it does not have to be this way. The scientific community is increasingly appreciating that the use of adult stem cells is both ethically and practically a better solution than creating human or hybrid embryos. In fact adult stem cells have been successful in treating 73 conditions which weaken human beings. Embryonic stem cells have so far proved clinically useless and are used to treat no conditions, illnesses or pathologies. This suggests strongly that the way to go is not in harvesting embryonic human or hybrid stem cells, but in the clinical use of adult stem cells.

All this is widely known in the scientific and political community. For that
reason, the bishops have called for MPs not to have to tow the party line in
the forthcoming vote on this matter, but to be able to vote according to
their consciences. Democracy is not democracy when it is manipulated by
vested interests. Democracy only works when there is freedom of spirit and
freedom of conscience.

The position of the Church in this matter is not anti-science. Science contributes greatly to making the world and mankind more human. But science can also destroy mankind and the world if it is not directed by a higher wisdom and by well-informed conscientious decisions of men and women of good will and of good faith."

THANK YOU BISHOPS!