London, England, May 23, 2018 / 14:01 pm
The Conservative Party member of the British parliament Jacob Rees-Mogg is in the spotlight this week for recent comments he made regarding anti-religious bigotry in the public square.
Rees-Mogg, a Catholic, said that as an MP he will not shy away from his religiously-informed views on abortion and same-sex marriage.
"I believe that life begins at the point of conception, that has always been the policy of the Catholic Church," Rees-Mogg said in a May 22 interview on BBC's Daily Politics program with host Jo Coburn.
"I think it is a deep, deep sadness that there are 190,000 abortions in this country in a year," he continued, saying abortion was "one of the great tragedies of the modern world."