Today the EU endorsed “My Voice, My Choice: For Safe and Accessible Abortion,” moving to fund abortion across Europe.
I commend those Maltese MEPs who voted against this motion, whilst I feel that those MEP’s who abstained should have shown more courage — because neutrality has no place on a matter where a beating heart equals human life.
I feel that it is the utmost duty of the law to protect life and not facilitate its destruction.
Except in extreme medical cases, abortion cannot be justified once there is a beating heart.
Solidarity is not synonomous with financing death.
The unborn child has no voice, no vote, no defence — which is why EU law MUST be amended to be the voice of the silent unborn child – to speak up in their defence and their right to life of as a human being ‘in utero’.
Ending a living human life is not a choice, it’s a failure of law and conscience.
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I am against abortion but this matter is about women and not men.
Irrespective of the arguments put forward by those who advocate a pro‑life position, it remains a fact that abortions still occur, including among Maltese women. The real issue is not whether to deny this reality, but how best to support women so they do not find themselves in circumstances that lead to abortion in the first place. Simply discarding legislation is not a solution. The situations that may lead a woman to consider abortion are varied and complex, e.g. mental health challenges, social deprivation, incest, rape, and many others. Each case deserves to be addressed on its own merits, with sensitivity and responsibility. Reducing the matter to a simplistic “yes” or “no” does not do justice to the lived realities of women. My understanding is that, locally, there is broad agreement that abortion should be decriminalised. If that is the case, then what exactly is holding us back?