§ Rev. Ian Paisley (Antrim, North)I beg to ask leave to present a petition for the protection of the human embryo, signed by 7,720 of my constituents. They affirm their belief that the newly fertilised human embryo is a real living individual human being, and they oppose all practices which discriminate against the embryo or violate his or her human dignity or right to live.
The petition concludes:
Wherefore your petitioners pray that the House of Commons will take immediate steps to enact legislation which forbids any procedure that involves purchase or sale of human embryos, the discarding of human embryos, their use as sources of transplant tissue or as subjects for research or experiment (unless this is done solely for the benefit of the embryo concerned).And your petitioners, as in duty bound, will ever pray etc.To lie upon the Table.