"Deadly", this is how the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children (Spuc), one of the British Pro-Life organisations, defined the vote with which the Westminster Parliament approved yesterday, 355 votes against 129, the law on human embryology and fertilisation, which authorises man-animal hybrid embryos. In the same poll, the Government rejected the law that authorises abortion in Northern Ireland, a decision that has been welcomed by the Northern-Irish Pro-Life Movement. "Today is a deadly day in the history of Britain", stated to SIR the director of "Spuc", John Smeaton, "Parliament approved a law that extends the lethal abuse of the more vulnerable members of our society. The future generations will read this macabre law and will wonder how a nation that should be civil may have debased human life so much". "Our only consolation is that thousands of people all over the country have joined their efforts in sympathy with the unborn children", added Smeaton. "Important leaders of the national Churches, such as card. Keith O’Brien and bishop Patrick O’Donoghue, have shown that taking strong, clear, brave positions may put the holiness of human life at the head of the public debate. Very many doctors, lawyers and academicians have defended the weakest of the weak".” ” ” “
