” “It is still a bill of law, but the Spanish Bishops wanted to explain once again that they disagree with the so-called "Bill on biomedical research”. The Bishops’ spokesman, Juan Antonio Martínez Camino, presented to the press today a release from the Executive Committee of the Spanish Bishops Conference, in which they insist that "the Church encourages without hesitations the science and technique that serve human life”, but specifies that if the law "is not amended by Parliament, it will not appropriately protect human life”. The risk is it may "open the doors to the legal practice of more abuse against the dignity of the human being”. They express therefore their confidence in the "common sense" of the law-makers and make an appeal to the "Catholics who know this plan clashes with the basic principles of ethics". "If it is not substantially amended warn the bishops Catholics cannot vote for this law without being objectively in disagreement with the Catholic doctrine”. The Bishops do not accept those aspects in which "it has been established that, until the 14th day of fertilisation, the ‘product’ is not an embryo and is qualified as a ‘pre-embryo’ and, as such, it does not deserve to be protected as the life of a human being”. ” “
