” “"Voting for a nominee whose beliefs do not respect the embryo is tantamount to being his partners in crime in the killing of this embryo, which means an act of serious lovelessness". This was said by Jean-Marie Le Mené, member of the Papal Academy for Life, during the round table that ended the International Conference about "Human embryo at pre-implantation", held in Vatican City on the occasion of the General Assembly of the Holy See’s body. As he lingered on the "duty" to "protect at law the embryo at pre-implantation", the speaker proposed to "create in every diocese a strategic facility specialising in the respect for life, separated from the pastoral care for the family and composed of experts believing in the humanity and personality of the embryo", so as to spread "a proactive resistance to the planned genocide of the embryo at pre-implantation, the antechamber to human cloning". Hence the need to "impose on all those who have a teaching position or a pastoral responsibility within the Church, on a parish level, the duty to invariably express themselves before any election and at least once a year" about life issues. In particular, Christian politicians, according to the expert, "should not just settle for ‘not doing’" but "they must instead put forward some positive and innovative proposals to protect the embryo".” “
