When the wine ran short, the mother of Jesus said to him, They have no wine. (And) Jesus said to her, Woman, how does your concern affect me? My hour has not yet come. His mother said to the servers, Do whatever he tells you. Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washings, each holding twenty to thirty gallons. Jesus told them, Fill the jars with water. So they filled them to the brim. Then he told them, Draw some out now and take it to the headwaiter. So they took it. And when the headwaiter tasted the water that had become wine, without knowing where it came from (although the servers who had drawn the water knew), the headwaiter called the bridegroom and said to him, Everyone serves good wine first, and then when people have drunk freely, an inferior one; but you have kept the good wine until now. Jesus did this as the beginning of his signs in Cana in Galilee and so revealed his glory, and his disciples began to believe in him. -The 2nd Luminous Mystery

New abortion debates loom in British Parliament

New abortion debates loom in British Parliament

London, Jul. 8, 2008 (CWNews.com) - The British Parliament will see efforts both to tighten and to ease the country's abortion law when the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill comes up for discussion again next week, the BBC reports.

Parliament voted in May against an effort to ban abortions after the first 20 weeks of pregnancy, leaving intact the current 24-week limit. Pro-life lawmakers will test that issue again, with amendments that would drop the limit to 20 or 22 weeks.

Meanwhile other legislators are planning to introduce different amendments that would: drop the requirement for two different doctors to approve an abortion, authorize nurses to perform some abortions, and allow women to take abortifacient drugs outside doctors' offices.

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