§ Mr. Peter Bruinvels (Leicester, East)I beg to ask leave to present a petition from the constituency of Leicester, East, which I have the honour to represent, and from other parts of the city of Leicester.
The petition contains the names and signatures of more than 2,200 people and rightly draws the attention of the House to their opposition to the following recommendations of the Warnock committee: that experimentation on human embryos up to 14 days old should be lawful, and that it should be lawful for human embryos to be bought and sold.
The petition states:
Wherefore your petitioners pray that the Honourable Members of the House of Commons should therefore urge the Minister for Health that he recommend to the House that experiments on living human embryos be banned as well as the creation of human embryos for experimentation and human with animal fertilisation.I heartily endorse the sentiments expressed in the petition, which has been supported by so many local churches throughout the city of Leicester. Indeed, both my wife and I are signatories. The petition ends:and your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray.
§ To lie upon the Table.