Mark Pritchard, who sits on the all-party Pro-life group in Parliament, says that the statistics on multiple terminations are ‘shocking and disturbing’.
The Vatican has included the destruction of embryos on a new list of mortal sins - at a time when the Catholic Church in England and Wales is campaigning against controversial new legislation in this area.
On 7 March, more than 100 academics signed a letter to the Times (London) arguing that ‘votes on controversial bioethical issues should not be whipped’.