Cardinal Cormack Murphy-O'Connor is calling for several weeks to be shaved off the abortion limit - and credit to him for that. Surely, abortion is both a sin and a crime against the unborn which, unlike all others, is on a sliding scale. As every day of a pregnancy goes by, the horror becomes greater. The last figures I saw spoke of nigh on 200,ooo abortions annually and with 3,000 of these as 'late-term' abortions, which pretty much means, killing a child capable of being born and surviving, often for no more than cosmetic reasons: hare lip, club foot etc.This limit MUST be pushed back to under 12 weeks, which is I believe, when medically, the embryo becomes a foetus. Unfortunately, this is misleading as a heartbeat has been detectable for many weeks before this.The baby killers - why mince words? - brought us to this point by 'thin-end-of-the-wedge' tactics. Time for us to use the same methods.This is the same Cardinal ignored by the Catholic electorate when he asked them not to vote Labour over the abortion issue.
The latest abomination is the possible extension of research done on embryos so that all males can be destroyed if there is a family history of autism. If I have to explain that this is an abuse of life to anybody and that this is horrendous , there must be something fundamentally wrong with their moral development. We are in desperate need of a return to the scriptures and an understanding of what SIN is all about.
