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UK Bishops’ social justice agency criticized for inviting pro-abortion speakers
BY PATRICK B. CRAINE
Fri Aug 12, 2011 14:11 ESTComments (0)Tags: Abortion, Catholic Church, England, Social
SWANWICK, U.K., August 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An agency of the U.K. Catholic Bishops gave a platform to two public advocates of abortion access at its annual conference last month.
At its July 15-17 conference, the National Justice and Peace Network featured addresses by Frances O’Grady, deputy general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, and Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, who have both supported abortion access and homosexual causes. NJPN is an agency of the U.K. Bishops’ Department of International Affairs.
As reported by John Smeaton, director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, O’Grady is quoted on the front page of a leaflet from the lobby group Abortion Rights. “Access to birth control and abortion has allowed immeasurable economic, educational and social benefits for women,” she said. “Now is the time to stand up again to defend women’s right to choose.”
Cruddas told the Catholic Herald in December that abortion “should be safe, legal and rare.” He supported the 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, which allowed experimentation on human embryos and the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos for research purposes, and the 2005 Mental Capacity Act, which allowed doctors to withhold nutrition and hydration from incapacitated patients.
Cruddas is also scheduled to speak October 29th at Blackfriars Hall, a permanent private hall at Oxford University run by the English Dominicans.
Smeaton highlighted the U.S. Bishops’ 2004 statement “Catholics in Political Life” which says that those “who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles” should not be given “awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.”
“Let us imagine two prominent public officials in mid-1930s Germany who defended and promoted the killing of Jews,” said Smeaton. “Would it have been right for a justice and peace group to have invited those officials to speak to it about ‘justice in the workplace’? There is no moral difference between the killing of Jews and the killing of unborn children.”
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BY PATRICK B. CRAINE
Fri Aug 12, 2011 14:11 ESTComments (0)Tags: Abortion, Catholic Church, England, Social
SWANWICK, U.K., August 12, 2011 (LifeSiteNews.com) – An agency of the U.K. Catholic Bishops gave a platform to two public advocates of abortion access at its annual conference last month.
At its July 15-17 conference, the National Justice and Peace Network featured addresses by Frances O’Grady, deputy general secretary of the Trades Union Congress, and Jon Cruddas, the Labour MP for Dagenham and Rainham, who have both supported abortion access and homosexual causes. NJPN is an agency of the U.K. Bishops’ Department of International Affairs.
As reported by John Smeaton, director of the Society for the Protection of Unborn Children, O’Grady is quoted on the front page of a leaflet from the lobby group Abortion Rights. “Access to birth control and abortion has allowed immeasurable economic, educational and social benefits for women,” she said. “Now is the time to stand up again to defend women’s right to choose.”
Cruddas told the Catholic Herald in December that abortion “should be safe, legal and rare.” He supported the 2008 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, which allowed experimentation on human embryos and the creation of human-animal hybrid embryos for research purposes, and the 2005 Mental Capacity Act, which allowed doctors to withhold nutrition and hydration from incapacitated patients.
Cruddas is also scheduled to speak October 29th at Blackfriars Hall, a permanent private hall at Oxford University run by the English Dominicans.
Smeaton highlighted the U.S. Bishops’ 2004 statement “Catholics in Political Life” which says that those “who act in defiance of our fundamental moral principles” should not be given “awards, honors or platforms which would suggest support for their actions.”
“Let us imagine two prominent public officials in mid-1930s Germany who defended and promoted the killing of Jews,” said Smeaton. “Would it have been right for a justice and peace group to have invited those officials to speak to it about ‘justice in the workplace’? There is no moral difference between the killing of Jews and the killing of unborn children.”
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