Support for embryos bill

Published on Monday 19 May 2008 20:31

It is interesting that, in discussing the human embryology bill (your report, and editorial, 19 May), prominence is given exclusively to the Catholic Church's view as the prevailing "religious" one. This ignores the fact that Judaism supports the bill. Rabbis from every shade of Judaism – from reform to orthodox and liberal – have not only backed the embryo hybrids but have also condemned Cardinal Keith O'Brien and his colleagues for their ill-informed and histrionic com

So, there is more than one religious position. One faith sees an acute moral dilemma while another, ironically predicating the first, sees no moral dilemma at all.

This is further proof that looking to religious belief provides no solution at all to setting out society's ethical position.

ALISTAIR McBAY

National Secular Society

Atholl Crescent, Edinburgh