Nadine Dorries

The Embryology Bill, cui bono?

A guest blog from Nadine Dorries, MP. 

The Human Tissue and Embryology Bill will be the show of the year in Parliament.

The amendments I and others will lay down to reduce the upper limit at which abortion takes place from 24 weeks will be controversial and explosive. I had been concerned that this debate would overshadow other serious issues in the Bill, such as animal-human embryo hybrids, but then I hadn’t counted on Cardinal Keith O’Brien. 

Cardinal O’Brien has not always been my favourite Cardinal; I have disagreed with him in the past. However, his typically forthright views have successfully grabbed the media’s attention at a time when we needed it most—immediately prior to the introduction of the Bill.

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