Madison, Wis., Oct 16, 2011 / 16:29 pm
The Wisconsin Catholic Conference has backed measures to raise workers' minimum wage and to ban the sale of fetal body parts, describing both as efforts to protect human dignity.
“Whether in the womb of the marketplace, human beings are not commodities,” Wisconsin Catholic Conference Executive Director John Huebscher stated in his Oct. 7 “Eye on the Capitol” update.
“The economy is made for people, not the other way around,” observed Huebscher, whose organization represents the state's bishops in matters of public policy. He went on to explain their support for “two bills that recognize the dignity of human beings in the marketplace.”
Assembly Bill 214, authored by Representative Andre Jacque, would ban the sale and use of body parts obtained from aborted children.