“Government proposals,” we read in an article by the excellent Simon Caldwell on the Herald’s homepage today, “to ‘hard-wire’ abortion and contraceptive services into overseas development programmes have been criticised by the English and Welsh bishops.”
Well, no doubt they have: but the bishops’ statement was issued only the day before the closure of the public consultation phase for the Government’s document Choice for Women: Wanted Pregnancies, Safe Births. Why not in time to rally Catholic opinion against it?
