Calls for legislation to protect embryos

SENSITIVE legislation must be produced to protect the life of the “embryonic human being”, the Pro-Life campaign insisted.

“The human embryo is not potential life — it is human life with potential. Each one of us passed through this early stage of life on our way to birth,” said the group’s medical advisor, Dr Berry Kiely.

Members of the Pro Life Campaign insisted at a press conference in Dublin the Supreme Court’s “disappointing” ruling in the frozen embryos case did not prevent the Government from introducing legislation to protect early human life.