Rowan Williams: The UK Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill
Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury, comments on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill:
It’s worth trying to spell out just why issues of conscience do arise. Some of the questions could perhaps be answered by a better understanding of what the science does and doesn’t mean. But it’s quite important also to say that science in itself is never going to be able to tell us what the right thing is for us to do; it can only tell us what’s possible. And, in spite of the way some people talk in this debate, there really is a difference between what’s possible and what’s right.
Via Melanie Phillips.
More on the bill from John Smeaton:
Today I was at the Houses of Parliament in London to deliver SPUC’s petition against the government’s Human Fertilisation and Embryology bill. We gave the sheets bearing more than 45,400 signatures to Mr David Burrowes, Conservative MP for Enfield Southgate, who will later present the petition to the House of Commons.