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Training Conference on the Embryo Bill—Monday, 21st April—Book Now!
This Monday, 21st April, LCF/CCFON are holding a day-long conference, ‘Communicating the Importance of the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill’, to equip Christians to deal with the issues raised in the Bill. The conference is taking place at 6-8 Marshalsea Road, London, and will start at 10 am and finish at 4 pm. The cost of the conference is £20 (lunch and light refreshments included). Whilst advance registration is preferable, delegates may attend on the day without registering.
To book your place on the conference now, please e-mail Kathryn Wakeling at kathryn.wakeling@ccfon.org or phone 0207 4076157.
Speakers at the conference include:
Josephine Quintavalle
Josephine Quintavalle was a pregnancy counsellor for LIFE for 20 years and co-founded Comment on Reproductive Ethics (CORE) in 1994. CORE is a pro-life interest group focusing on ethical dilemmas surrounding human reproduction, particularly the new technologies of assisted conception. Josephine is a regular contributor to media debates and publishes articles on many aspects of assisted reproduction.
Dr Peter Saunders
Peter Saunders trained as a General Surgeon, before serving with the Africa Inland Mission in Kenya and completing two years’ mission training at All Nations Christian College in the UK. Since 1992 he has worked in full-time Christian ministry with the Christian Medical Fellowship, a UK-based organisation with over 4,500 UK doctors and 1,200 medical student members, first as Student Secretary and since 1999 as General Secretary. As CMF's chief executive he is involved in leadership training, teaching evangelism and ethics, medical mission, writing, editing and media work.
Abortion vote in the Council of Europe
On Wednesday, 16th April 2008, the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (C.O.E.) voted on a report on 'Access to Safe and Legal Abortions in Europe'. The process leading to the vote was positive, but this was hijacked by the pro-abortion lobby. The report that was finally adopted called for ‘safe and legal’ abortion to be made a 'right' and for member states to de-criminalise abortion ‘within reasonable gestational limits’. Abortion limits currently differ from one country to another.
The report was passed with few amendments by 102 votes to 69, with 14 abstentions. A joint Polish, Irish and Maltese statement was explored by CARE, but unfortunately it proved not to be possible.
Please pray that the eyes of politicians and parliamentarians across Europe would be opened to the humanity of the unborn child and the harm that abortion does to women.
We now have over 21,000 signatures on the Alive and Kicking Campaign to change the law on abortion through the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill, and to make abortion rare. There have been lots of people signing on-line, but don’t forget to download a copy of the petition and take it to your church Sunday services, mid-week groups and to family and friends and post the petition back in to Alive and Kicking. We are aiming for 100,000 signatures.
Links to the Petition
On-line petition
Download a copy of the petition
http://www.aliveandkickingcampaign.org/public/pdf/petition.pdf