John Smeaton interview

Background briefing. Smeaton is the National Director of SPUC, and has given an interesting interview on Zenit ('Daily Dispatch' 16th Feb 07: Tony Blair's Bioethical Legacy), the Catholic news agency. He decries the failure of the churches to teach clearly on pro-life issues, and to oppose explicit sex-education.

Anyone who still thinks Tony Blair has 'Christian' or even 'Catholic' sympathies should read Smeaton's summary of the Blair legacy:

Smeaton: Under Tony Blair's leadership, the government and parliament have plunged Britain into an ethical abyss, in which there is no right or wrong but simply administrative and technical questions to be resolved by the implementation of new anti-life evils.

Two of the first things Tony Blair did in office was to establish a strategy on teenage pregnancy and to revive proposals to change the law on end-of-life treatment.

The former involves supplying abortion and birth control drugs and devices to schoolgirls as young as 11 without parents' knowledge or consent; the latter has led to a law -- the Mental Capacity Act 2005 -- which allows, and in certain circumstances requires, doctors to starve and to dehydrate to death vulnerable patients.

The Blair government exports abortion-on-demand to the developing world under the guise of the Millennium Development Goals and it has increased funding for population control agencies -- such as the International Planned Parenthood Federation and the United Nations Population Fund -- complicit in China's one-child policy.

Tony Blair has personally championed destructive experiments on cloned human embryos. In general, there is virtually no area of pro-life or pro-family ethical concern which has not been made worse by the Blair government.

In addition, the U.K. is a major influence within the European Union and in many other parts of the world in support of anti-life, anti-family policies.

Hat-tip to Hermeneutic of Continuity.