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30/11/2007

Press release

Issued by the Catholic Communications Network

Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

‘We strongly oppose the removal of the requirement to take account of the child’s need for a father in providing fertility services. That children need fathers is a fact supported by millennia of human experience’.

Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics

View the full Joint Response to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Draft) Bill

View Archbishop Peter Smith's covering letter

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor on the World at One being interviewed about the Bill

Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
Members of both Houses should be given a free vote on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

Short explanatory film produced by the Lawyers’ Christian Fellowship on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill

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