Compassionately pro-life – Alan Deidun
You might excuse me for digressing from my customary focus on environmental issues, but to ignore the current raging debate concerning the introduction or otherwise of abortion merits some consideration. Without sounding patronising, I wish to contribute my tuppence...
Those Catholics for Choice – Tonio Fenech
In no uncertain terms, there is nothing Catholic in the US pro-abortion funded lobby group called Catholics for Choice featured by your paper on the March 3. I do not like bringing in religion into the abortion argument, as...
Protection of potentially impaired foeti should be entrenched in Constitution
Abortion in cases of severe fatal foetus impairment would lead to the practice of eugenics which could only be described as genocide, the Commission for the Rights of Persons with Disability said. In a position paper issued in reaction to...
Duty to protect, not kill – George Vella
It is amply clear that the campaign for the eventual legalisation of abortion is gearing up and using all available means to keep the issue on the front burner. This in spite of the repeated assurances from the Prime...
Nils Muižnieks and his high horse
Born to first generation Latvian immigrants in the USA, born, raised and educated in the United States of America, Nils Muiznieks obtained a Ph.D. in political science at the University of California at Berkeley (1993). Prior to that, he...
Malta Furious with Council of Europe by Deborah M. Piroch
Abortion Has No Business in Malta Abortion is illegal in Malta and the populace plans to keep it that way. In fact, before the country joined the European Union (EU), it received assurances that the nation would not be...
A decoy for the nation
Is it possible that we remain so utterly uninformed as to automatically accuse anyone opposing a new Bill of supporting domestic violence? It should be obvious to all that the least one should do is to have first read...
The malevolent agenda
The fact that Edwin Vassallo chose to vote against the Domestic Violence Bill should have been a wake-up call for our MPs. Nationalist Party MP Vassallo has made a name for himself by risking his political career when he...
In the steps of the shoemaker
In one of the first interviews given in 2008 by Joseph Muscat, newly elected Leader of the then Malta Labour Party, he was asked which politician he admired most and who his role model was. His immediate reply was...
Unborn children left unprotected
During the Christmas season more than any other time, the Maltese generously seek to help the needy of every kind. At the highest levels, this is also accomplished through legislation which seeks to protect the most vulnerable. An example of...
