Abortion, Malta and the United Nations

The recent "recommendation" by the United Nations Economic and Social Council regarding Malta's position on abortion is a shameless attempt at bullying our nation into systematically accepting what has become the most horrific holocaust the world has ever witnessed.

Abortion is the deliberate killing of innocent life. Point 41 of the Economic and Social Council's report, under the heading "Suggestions and Recommendations", states: "The committee urges the state party to review its legislation on abortion and consider exceptions to the general prohibition of abortion for cases of therapeutic abortions and when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest."

It has been proved statistically that in countries like the United States and the United Kingdom, where abortion has been legal for over two decades, abortions carried out in cases of rape and incest are less than 1% of the total of legal abortions. Though rape and incest are serious matters and the persons involved in these cases are also victims who suffer terribly, it is clear that the abortion movement is attempting to ride on the emotional charge that these difficult issues evoke in people to justify the killing of innocent human life.

It is interesting to note that these 'recommendations' are also made for the review of abortion laws in cases of "therapeutic abortions". What exactly is the council asking Malta to review?

Well, in layman's terms, they are requesting that we allow the murder of innocent life, not only in cases of rape and incest, but also in cases deemed to be "therapeutic" where the mother may feel that to continue with the pregnancy may affect her mood, peace of mind, career prospects or because the pregnancy is simply an inconvenience.

In fact, reliable research shows that in the US alone, 92 per cent of abortions are carried out for reasons of convenience, not because of incest and rape, neither for physical conditions and/or deformities of the unborn and even less so because of the mother's health.

The pro-abortion movement often uses highly debatable and controversial arguments such as rape, incest and the possibility of deformed children to back up their point. They claim that these are acceptable grounds for abortion. However, when one looks at what these figures are saying, a new and very troubling picture emerges. It is a world that is quickly darkening and we all struggle against a culture of death.

Nothing will ever justify the brutal destruction of life. Pro-abortionists obscure the reality of what they advocate through sanitising the process with the use of more palatable words and definitions. They call themselves pro-choice, what they are actually promoting is nothing short of legalised murder; they call the act a "termination" which in reality means "the act of intervening in the pregnancy, either with drugs or through surgery which ultimately leads to the death a defenceless innocent human".

They claim that the woman has a right to choose and that nobody has the right to prevent that, what they are saying is that the human being in the womb has no right to life. This argument stems from their belief that the child is just a "foetus", which somehow seems to imply to advocates of abortion that the presence in the womb is not a human one. In fact the word foetus comes from the Latin for 'offspring' or 'young one'.

Others argue that life in utero in the early stages is but a "bunch of cells" or just an embryo. As though the embryo had nothing to do with human life at all, and that it may be able to just as easily develop into a cactus plant, a fish or a potato.

The UN committee is implying that the matter is worrying or concerning, and thus they feel that Malta's ban on abortion is having negative effects on our society. The fact that restricting access to abortion has tragic side effects does not, in itself, show that the restrictions are unjustified, since murder is wrong regardless of the consequences of prohibiting it.

The pro-abortion movement energetically paved the way for the legalisation of abortion in the US prior to the Roe vs Wade case in 1973. One of the false arguments they were fond of using was that thousands of women were dying every year in America because of back street abortions, supposedly carried out by quacks, or else self-inflicted through the spine-chilling use of old, rusty coat hangers. The pro-abortion movement used the iron coat hanger as one of the most recognisable symbols of the movement. Slowly the truth about the inflated stories about back street abortions and dying mothers has come to light.

Dr Bernard Nathanson, who was one of the original leaders of the American pro-abortion movement and co-founder of the National Abortion Rights Action League, and who has since become an anti-abortionist, admits that he and others in the abortion rights movement had intentionally fabricated the number of women who allegedly died as a result of illegal abortions.

Even in a country like the US, which is today soaking in the innocent blood of millions of aborted humans, there is a fresh wind of change blowing. The existing Supreme Court judges are set to retire and the current administration is preparing to appoint a new team of Supreme Court judges who are not in favour of abortion.

We Maltese must ensure that we never allow these lies and others to permeate our society creating a "blurred new truth".

Consider this: currently, 46 million tiny humans are legally murdered in their mother's womb every year around the world: which means that, if you are a relatively quick reader, approximately 322 human lives have been extinguished in the time it took you to read this letter.

Gift of Life is an foundation based in Malta that exists to defend the life of the innocent in the mother's womb.

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