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Published Date: 29 October 2008
THE leader of Scotland's Roman Catholics has claimed controversial embryology laws pave the way for practices "last seen under the Nazis".
In an open letter to Gordon Brown, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, who is also the Archbishop of St Andrew's in Edinburgh, branded the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill "misguided".

He said the Bill, being debated in the House of Lords today, would allow tissue to be taken from incapacitated adults and children without their consent.

He said: "The grotesque implications of these procedures are utterly horrifying. Removing parts of people's bodies without consent utterly flies in the face of BMA and GMC guidance. Such behaviour was last seen under the Nazis.

"The Bill seeks, by stealth, to create a regime where extracting tissue and cells from human beings no longer requires their consent or involvement."





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  • Last Updated: 29 October 2008 10:46 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Bigwull,

edinburgh 29/10/2008 12:30:41
The leader of his church was a Nazi so they should know what they're on about. I wish these religious zealots would keep their medieval veiws to themselves.
2

JT,

29/10/2008 13:17:10
takes one to know one!
3

Noodle doodle,

29/10/2008 15:19:56
Cardinal loses argument by Godwin's Law:

"Godwin's Law applies especially to inappropriate, inordinate, or hyperbolic comparisons of other situations (or one's opponent) with Hitler or Nazis or their actions"

"whoever mentioned the Nazis has automatically "lost" whatever debate was in progress."
4

John Knox furr First Meenister,

High St, Embra 29/10/2008 20:20:29
More nonsense from the unreformed Christians. Purgatory next nae doobt unless you purchase yer indulgences.
5

The_Reiver,

29/10/2008 21:52:54
What a disgraceful outburst from a man that clearly occupies the moral low-ground. Not only is he trying to prevent legitimate scientific research which has the potential to reverse degenerative disease, but also he equates the work of such scientists to be equivalent to the Nazis. It is time that the Catholic Church unequivocally apologised to the Jewish people for the silence of Pope Pius XII about the Nazi Holocaust. I would remind him that one third of the SS were practising Catholics. I will not even begin to mention the complicity of the Catholic Church in Franco's Spain or how they have sent millions in Africa to an early death through AIDS because of their irrational opposition to condoms. I hope to see an unequivocal condemnation of these views fro all our political leaders, including the First Minister of Scotland.
6

the_figures_are _fudged,

Galashiels 30/10/2008 00:29:51
"The Bill seeks, by stealth, to create a regime where extracting tissue and cells from human beings no longer requires their consent or involvement."

This is New Labour policy to the core. Not just on tissue.

Look at it, they plan to demand our DNA, they invade our privacy, they erode our basic freedoms, and as if that was not enough they tax us half to death.

So glad the church is finally seeing the light.

It is time somebody stood up to New Labour.
7

John Knox furr First Meenister,

High St, Embra 30/10/2008 01:12:07
"It is time somebody stood up to New Labour."??
Whits wrang with your political leaders? Nobody there? And why not?

 

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