In his article entitled ‘United to protect children’ (August 6), Home Affairs Minister Carmelo Abela wrote: “When it comes to the well-being of our children, this is a topic that unites us all.” Yes, we are united on this....
Men are more likely than women to seek pleasure from sexuality and so women have traditionally been sexual gatekeepers for men. In the past, the potential need to care for a dependent child had a tempering effect on women’s...
The referendum on Brexit has been a severe blow to European unity. This development will have a far-reaching negative impact on both Britain and the rest of Europe. Although, for once, the British had the opportunity to vote in...
Science and technology could help advance man’s future in truth and goodness, but the opposite can also happen if professionals don’t really care about right and wrong. So would it do good to use Parliament to facilitate the use...
I am not going to reply to Prof. Anthony Serracino Inglott’s letter in last Sunday’s TIMES entitled Emergency Contraception in the sarcastic way that he wrote about me, in deference to boring the public to death with medical details....
“These dazed dupes will gather again together and attempt to believe their dreams and disbelieve their eyes.” These are the words of GK. Chesterton aimed at eugenicists, following his successful campaign to defeat the “Feeble-Minded Control Bill,” the 1912...
The debate on emergency contraception/morning-after pill in Malta must be confusing all those trying to make sense of the conflicting statements presented in the local media. It is so difficult to analyse facts when they are completely masked in...
Much has been written and proclaimed about when life starts and the methods and reasons to prevent or terminate it. Both sides of the political spectrum still profess to be against abortion and the termination of intra-uterine life at...
I agree and disagree on some points raised by martin scicluna in his interesting article ‘last human right’ (Times of Malta, August 10). I think that, although a lot is being written about euthanasia and the heartbreaking appeal by...
Embryonic life starts after the male sperm fertilises the female egg or ovum to form a zygote. Everyone who has some common sense knows this. Sperm transport through the cervix is affected by endocrine, immunological and psychological factors. Around...
