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‘BISHOPS’ MUM ON SLAUGHTER OF INNOCENTS

Baby lives don't matter to female Anglican prelates

by Jules Gomes • ChurchMilitant.com • June 16, 2020

"WESTMINSTER, England (ChurchMilitant.com) Nineteen prelates, including five women bishops, abstained from a pro-life vote as Britain's House of Lords voted 355–77 to approve the government's extreme abortion regime in Northern Ireland.

Bishops Sarah Mullally (London), Rachel Treweek (Gloucester), Vivienne Faull (Bristol), Christine Hardman (Newcastle) and Elizabeth Lane (Derby) belong to the cohort of 26 Church of England bishops who sit in the House of Lords as Lords Spiritual.

Seven male bishops, shamed by a previous Church Militant exposé, voted against the Abortion (Northern Ireland) (No 2) Regulations statutory instrument on Monday.

Even though the House of Bishops at the Church of England's General Synod stated in February that 98.3% of abortions in the United Kingdom are immoral, only Apb. Justin Welby (Canterbury) and Bps. Paul Butler (Durham), Christopher Cocksworth (Coventry), Timothy Dakin (Winchester), Julian Henderson (Blackburn), Donald Allister (Peterborough) and James Newcome (Carlisle) voted pro-life in Parliament.

"'Can a mother forget the baby at her breast and have no compassion on the child she has borne?' asks the prophet Isaiah. The answer appears to be yes, if she happens to be a bishop in the Church of England," lamented Dave Brennan, director of pro-life Brephos.

"One argument for having bishops with 'real-life experience' is that they can apparently bring their insights to bear on 'real-life' issues," Brennan noted. "But that hasn't happened with bishop of London Sarah Mullally who, despite having been a midwife and the U.K.'s chief nursing officer, is mum on abortion."

"One argument for having these 'Lords Spiritual' — and indeed an established church — is that they can be the moral conscience of the nation. If this is the caliber of our 'conscience' as a nation, it is no wonder we are plunging into such dissipation," he added."

"Some of the absentee bishops are the same bishops who condemned in the strongest possible terms Dominic Cummings, no-deal Brexit and racism," he stressed. "But when it comes to the lives of countless unborn children they won't lift a finger — literally: This particular vote could be cast from a bishop's sofa in a bishop's palace by text."

The Lords were allowed to vote through an online hub from home due to Wuhan virus restrictions.

Over a dozen bishops lashed out at Prime Minister Boris Johnson in May for not sacking his senior advisor, Dominic Cummings, following revelations that Cummings had breached lockdown rules by driving to Durham to arrange childcare for his 4-year-old, autistic son. "