Now there’s a provocative blog post title and no mistake, but it’s the view put forward this morning by Cranmer:
When is a free vote not a free vote?
When it is an issue of conscience and Harriet Harman leads a whipping like the one witnessed on the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill.
Whipping is usually fully [...]
It’s now out in the open. Despite the fact that abortion is meant to be a conscience issue in the House of Commons, Harriet Harman, the deputy leader of the Labour Party, organised a massive whipping operation on Labour MPs during Tuesday’s debate on lowering the legal limit on abortion.
A secret plot led by Labour’s [...]
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Information is beginning to emerge about how the abortion vote on Tuesday evening was subtlely whipped by Labour.
As Conservative Home point out this morning in this great chart, the abortion vote did split roughly on party lines.
Now some of that is to do with how socially liberal Labour MPs tend to be (and socially conservative [...]
Now the Archbishop of Canterbury steps in to highlight the problems with mixing DNA.
Dr Williams attacked proposals in the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill which could open the door to research into hybrid embryos and which would remove the reference to the need for a father when under going fertility treatment.
He said: "The hybrid question [...]
The BBC is reporting on News 24 that Gordon Brown will allow a free vote on "3 key clauses". Don’t hold your breath until we find out what those sections of the Bill are.
Update – Watching the One O’Clock News. The three areas allowed a free vote during the Committee stage are:
Creation of Saviour Siblings
IVF [...]
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Good to read this morning that Tom Wright, the Bishop of Durham, used his Easter sermon to attack the Government’s new obscene Bill on embryology and fertility.
In his Easter Sunday message, given at Durham Cathedral, Rt Rev Tom Wright issued a rallying call to all faiths to object to the "1984-style" proposals.
He accused ministers [...]
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