Bishops on abortion
PA Wellington Every school day the equivalent of a classroom of children are being killed by abortion and Parliament must stop this, New Zealand’s Catholic Bishops said yesterday at the end of a conference in Wellington. In their strongest statement yet on abortion, the Bishops said it was clear that the law, despite its clear intention, was providing almost no protection for unborn children.
More effective legislation must be passed urgently, they said. The statement has been
sent to all members of Parliament and to every Church leader. The Bishops also have called on the Medical Association and the Medical Council to examine what they describe as a grave situation. “Abortion is killing a significant part of a future generation,” the Bishops said. “Surely this says something to the moral conscience of our nation. “We cannot accept that the destruction of 6800 un-
born children last year can be justified on medical grounds. Such reasoning is beyond imagining.”
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