I hope to put up a summary of events on the blog for Day One (Monday) as well as live blogging on tuesday when the 'need for a father' and the time limit for abortion are debated.
Meanwhile - Bishops Bash Back (article in the Times - that isn't the actual title of the article...)
Some quotes to let you know we're in the same old territory:
Tom wright, Bishop of Durham
We would like to make it plain that as people from other Christian
traditions we are completely opposed to the creation of animal-human hybrids,
saviour siblings and the removal of the obligation on IVF clinics to consider
the child's need for a father. This is not a narrowly Roman Catholic issue, nor
is it a narrowly Christian issue nor indeed is it a narrowly religious issue. It
is a human issue. We need to fight to uphold and protect our humanity
[That's told 'em]
Ian Lucas, Passion for Life (?)Mr Brown [is] not respecting the conscience of his MPs
[in spite of his MPs ~ and Cabinet Ministers - all having a free vote?]
Josephine Quintavallem, Comment on Reproductive Ethics (?)
They devoted 700 hours to debate fox hunting and they’re going to give three
hours to debate whether you should kill the unborn child[rather gives the game away that attempts to reduce the time limit are really fuelled by religiously motivated anti-abortion campaigners]
Finally we are told about the Islamic Medical Association which we are told "represents over two million British Muslims"
[two million doctors?]
Should be an interesting two days ...
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