ON the eve of Wednesday's debate in the House of Lords on the findings of the Warnock Committee, the Catholic Union of Great Britain was emphasising above all the need for "the strongest controls in the land" on experimentation involving human embryos.
It also expressed "strong support for the proposed law to ban surrogate motherhood" and described the issue of in vitro fertilisation as "a very difficult question which will be the subject of continuing pastoral study by the magisterium of the Church in the coming years."
Cat holic peers Lords Rawlinson, Craigmyle, Longford and Coleraine were billed to speak.