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Article: Bishop responds to embryo, abortion cases.(Cardinal Basil Hume; destruction of frozen embryos in the United Kingdom)
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- The Christian Century
- Article date:
- August 28, 1996
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In the wake of bitter moral controversies in Great Britain involving abortion and the destruction of frozen embryos, Cardinal Basil Hume called for changes in British law to better protect unborn human life. Hume said the nation had reached a "moral cul-de-sac" from which there was no satisfactory way out in its acceptance of abortion and in vitro fertilization as a means of treating infertility.
The cardinal's August 8 comments were prompted by the worldwide attention focused on two ethical debates surrounding the beginning of life: a British law that required the destruction of some 3,300 frozen embryos that had remained unclaimed by their creators after five ...