This week, Conservative MP Nadine Dorries told The Catholic Herald that she feels badly let down by church leaders - both Anglican and Catholic - in her fight to reform Britain's abortion law.

She said:

"I need religious support. It is our core support. I need the churches being more involved, and the churches have been pathetic, pathetic, during the abortion debate in their support for what I was trying to do.
“The Church of England was the worst and the only person in the Catholic Church who made any comment was Cardinal O’Brien. Everybody was silent because the churches were weak and cowardly in their position.

“I was even told by one envoy from the Church that Psalm 139 was ‘just poetry’. Weeks later they timidly came out and squeaked their words of support... The churches have really angered me during this debate.”