Changing abortion laws
Pro-life group wants to strengthen Malta's pro-life laws on abortion, writes Steven Ertelt for LifeNews in Canada:
Malta is one of the few European nations to make abortion illegal and the pro-life group wants to enshrine the law in the nation's constitution and make it more difficult to overturn it. Gift of Life has launched an online petition calling for the right to life starting at conception to become a part of the constitution. The proposal would also make it so the parliament in the largely Catholic nation would need a two-thirds votes, instead of a majority, to overturn the country's pro-life laws and legalize abortions. The group plans on presenting the signatures it gathers when the parliament returns from its summer break.Background reading here, from MaltaMedia
According to the group, residents of Malta can sign the petition, but so can anyone who holds a Maltese identification card or passport. "Following the public consultation by the Government in 2005 on how to best protect Malta against abortion, a year later, the unborn child in Malta is still not adequately protected from the possibility of abortion being introduced in the future. We are lobbying to give the unborn child the right to life through our Constitution," the organization says. "There are some who are working so that Malta will have abortion introduced. In a recent visit by a foreign abortionist brought over by these individuals, free abortions were offered to Maltese women," the group added..
Maltese bishops criticized a document released by a UN committee urging the nation to consider allowing abortions in cases of rape or incest or supposedly to protect the health of the mother. In a statement, the bishops called the recommendation "objectionable" and "unacceptable" and urged Malta residents to continue protecting the right to life of unborn children from conception...The United Nations Human Rights Committee placed Malta and other pro-life nations on a "hit list" of countries that would be subjected to intense lobbying to alter their abortion statutes. Ironically, Malta has a representative on this UN committee..
posted by Robert Micallef at 8/29/2006 11:01:00 PM
What's all this crap? Malta needs to enter the 21st Century. Abortion is a woman's right and no one else's, particularly the supposedly (see, we can use that adverb too!!)celibate bishops and priests who would rather keep Malta stuck to the dark ages.
What a sad little article on a sad little island.
And what about they baby's rights?
This is a great thing that this group is doing. Those in favor of abortion call killing a baby progress and a right. How misguided some are. Go go Gift of Life
Sad sad people who actually are twisted enough to think that the killing of a baby is a cool thing to do.
What a sad shame they are
Wow, Little Malta in the Med. I think that its about time this abortion thing stopped. Why are we letting babies die. I know someone who ahd an abortion 15 years ago, she thought it was a choice and today she can't forgive herself
Refusing to allow abortion in order to save a woman's life is the exact OPPOSITE of respect for life.
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