Download PDF version of this page30/11/2007
Press release
Issued by the Catholic Communications Network
Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill
‘We strongly oppose the removal of the requirement to take account of the child’s need for a father in providing fertility services. That children need fathers is a fact supported by millennia of human experience’.
Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales and Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics
View the full Joint Response to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology (Draft) Bill
View Archbishop Peter Smith's covering letter
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor on the World at One being interviewed about the Bill
Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor
Members of both Houses should be given a free vote on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill