“The church always defends the weakest, especially the totally defenseless, who include conceived children,” the Family Council of the bishops’ conference had said on May 19. “Those who kill them, and those who actively participate in this killing or make laws against conceived life, including the life of a child in embryonic state, which is largely destroyed by in vitro procedure, stand in open conflict with the Catholic Church’s teaching.”
The council’s statement was issued amid controversy over plans by the Polish government of Prime Minister Donald Tusk for a new bioethics law that would allow IVF to be funded from the State health budget.
— Jonathan Luxmoore
