With the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill currently passing through the UK Parliament, the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales has sent out a resource pack to parishes to raise awareness about the Bill and to help Catholics pro-actively respond to it.

The parish resource pack highlights Church teaching and looks at the ethical considerations of elements like hybrid embryos, stem cell research, the welfare of the child and the Bill’s possible impact on abortion legislation.

Click here for the cover letter – Archbishop of Cardiff (pdf)
Click here for a one-page parish briefing (pdf)
Click here for the Parish Resource Pack (pdf)
Click here for a flyer highlighting public meetings in 2008 (pdf)

Click here for weblinks to documents/references in the parish resource pack (pdf)

Read the Bill (as introduced and with amendments)

Majority of Peers oppose use of human embryos; Lord Alton calls for Hunt Test to be put into law

View the Survey of Members of the House of Lords
December 2007 (pdf)

Write to your MP
To find out the name of your local MP on the parliament.uk website

You can email your local MP through the writetothem.com website

Information for this page has been taken directly from www.catholic-ew.org.uk/