As a child I was fascinated with caterpillars. I would collect them and carefully place them in a small patch in the garden, which my uncle had planted with lettuce and cabbage so that these caterpillars would grow on...
The proposed amendments to the Embryo Protection Act have been described as “a complete travesty of ethics, morality, and human dignity, allegedly to remove ‘discrimination’ imposed by nature herself”. The discussion on Xarabank further illustrated how media manipulation can...
In his article of embryo freezing (January 27), Martin Scicluna chose to confuse the debate by dragging in partisan politics and religion. Half his article focused on the disparate views different religions have on ensoulment and at what stage...
The ongoing news concerning the murder of Daphne Caruana Galizia represents a huge taint on Malta’s governance. The way the government is acting is more in sync with that of illiberal democracies in Hungary, Poland and Turkey, where institutional...
It is becoming a habit of this progressive government that when it wants to introduce a change, it precedes its actions by thinking up a story, a narrative that is essentially a false one. We have it from Minister...
It might seem obvious to some but not to others, that the life of a human individual begins at conception. Academic research in this field has been very enlightening and it can be neither disregarded nor refuted, unless one...
Helena Grech Sunday, 22 April 2018, 16:47 A massive crowd gathered on Sunday afternoon to protest against the government’s proposals to introduce embryo freezing tied with anonymous adoption. People held placards saying ‘I am not an object’ and ‘don’t freeze...
The complexity of the fraught human realities of childless couples has been all but lost in the heat and dust that has been generated by government’s IVF Bill. It is tempting to just shrug shoulders and say it is...
Minister Chris Fearne has stated that the proposed amendments to the existing law that regulates IVF and grants protection to embryos “address one of the most powerful forces in human nature – the will to procreate and have a...
