LONDON - The Archbishop of Westminster, Cardinal Basil Hume, risked fresh controversy among Catholics yesterday by arguing there was a case for allowing the 60,000 frozen embryos currently stored to die.
He admitted the loss of deliberately created human life was "repugnant" but believed this was the "least worse" solution to bad laws. The comments from the leader of Catholics in England and Wales, flies in the face of official church teachings and comes less than a week after controversy over the destruction of 3,300 "orphaned" embryos.
