Pro-life message conveyed to MPs

Members of the pro-life movement Gift of Life yesterday stood outside Parliament handing MPs a CD containing a song on the tragedy of abortion as part of its campaign in favour of life.

The song, which is in Maltese and titled The Tragedy Of Abortion, is penned and composed by Joe C. Aquilina and sung by Agatha Zahra, with musical arrangement and recording by Philip Vella.

Together with the CD, the movement also handed out a leaflet of the UK Life League, which focuses on the "insanity of choice". It shows a photo of a 24-week live baby in the neonatal intensive care unit and another one of a 24-week dead baby in an abortion clinic. The ultimate message in the leaflet is a baby saying that: "I'm a child, not a choice... Let me live".

Paul Vincenti, from Gift of Life, explained that the initiative also formed part of its campaign to have the Constitution amended to ensure that human life was protected from the moment of conception.

Gift of Life was the same movement that in January proposed to the House Social Affairs Committee that the law prohibiting abortion in Malta be entrenched in the Constitution, a proposal that was announced by Justice Minister Tonio Borg last week.