2012-03-05 14:48:57

Scotland decision on midwives questioned by Catholics


In Scotland, the Court of Session in Edinburgh has ruled that Catholic midwives can be forced to supervise the carrying out of abortions, a move Archbishop Mario Conti of Glasgow said ‘contradicted’ Scotland’s ‘most basic freedom.’ On Wednesday, Judge Lady Smith rejected the case brought by 2 Catholic midwives who claimed that being made to oversee staff involved in abortions was a breach of their human rights. Archbishop Conti told Emer McCarthy he views the judgment with ‘deep concern.’

“It is fundamental to the function of society that all citizens act in accordance with an informed conscience,” he told Vatican Radio. “And when the State comes in to indicate to them how far they can so exercise that informed conscience, then we begin to raise in our minds this whole question of interpreting what the right to religious freedom means.”

Listen to full interview by Emer McCarthy with Archbishop Conti: RealAudioMP3








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