Muscat calls for bioethics legislation on fertility treatment

Lorenzo Vella

Sep 18th 2009, 21:57

The morning-after pill is taken as an emergency contraception when the primary one fails or in case of rape. It does not cause an abortion but it prevents fertilisation. The abortion pill is completely different from the morning-after pill which causes abortion through chemical means. As far as I know morning-after pills are available in Malta. However I feel that due to our large number of teenage pregnancies and lack of sex education in Maltese schools this sort of pill should not only be made available to rape victims but to everyone who feels the need to use it.

D. Bart

Sep 18th 2009, 21:49

Someone had said that Malta is a State-Church separated state and that we are a lay country, it is a big Joke. We are very far away from this stage, because the top hierarchy in the church and the top people in government are comfortable with this situation. Labour was not against the church but AGAINST medieval cobwebs that is still evident in some people minds: that they want to dictate others what to do.

Chris Reiff

Sep 18th 2009, 17:11

@ J Farrugia

Why so close-minded, so terribly close-minded?

Just because circa 30 years ago Labour was against the Church (very rightly so), it doesn't mean that they (still) hate the Church.

Mario Muscat

Sep 18th 2009, 16:52

Why we have to convert all issues into a politcal ball?? Wake up . lets be mature and discuss without hurting each other feelings. In my case I am 50 year old liberal person , yes I agree with divorce , I agree bioethics legislation on fertility treatment and I am against abort.

I have been seperated for over 20 years and I feel like a prisoner , I cannot divorce and marry again.

About time somebody free us from all the chains.

P mizzi

Sep 18th 2009, 16:13

J Farrugia, You are obviously

a) a nationalist or
b) a very lucky man

In today's day and age you CANNOT say whatever you like. I'm an english speaking labourite, and because of that I'm shunned by various people, just because of the language I speak.
In today's day and age; we have a racism rate higher then our birth rate!
And in today's day and age; I'f you're homosexual, your home gets vandalised, or you get beaten up.

Is that the freedom you're talking about?
Wake Up

J Farrugia

Sep 18th 2009, 16:12

@ G Fenech - kids will tell you what sex is themselves. They surely dont need separation of church state. This separation is already working since 1971. So how can you call for the separation of church-state when this has already occurred? No wonder that Labour is always against the catholic church. They envy good relations between church and state. All power comes from above (GOD). That is what labour has always done. Sown hatred of the church and its priests whenever it was in power and even in Opposition. Their hatred knows no limits. Besides, real situations dont need condoms, or divorce or abortions. Reals situations need RESPONSIBILITY, SACRIFICES, EDUCATION AND HONESTY. Without them even if one gets a divorce, they will remain the same dishonest persons they were in the first marraige.

G. Fenech

Sep 18th 2009, 15:13

The State and the Church need to be separated if we want to grow up as a country. Arguing morality cannot ever get any results.

The argument has to be about factual data, and real situations.

Proper sexual education needs to be set up in schools. If kids are told what sex is all about, in a mature factual way, then they will be prepared and knowledgeable when something happens, instead of basing their know-how on what they hear in the playground and what they find on tv/internet. Condoms need to be readily available to teenagers and people who wish to abort should have the facility ready available.

This should be a democratic country, where choice is not something of a taboo. By not allowing it, you only make their lives a little harder by forcing them to go to Sicily or UK to get it done.

The only reason this hasn't happened yet, is simply because none of our politicians have the backbone to do so.

Joseph Vella

Sep 18th 2009, 14:32

Unless there's PL in government, we can NEVER discuss certain issues properly. The present government is way too conservative to have any relevance to the younger generation!

J Farrugia

Sep 18th 2009, 13:44

AS IF IN THIS DAY AND AGE YOU NEED COURAGE TO DISCUSS SENSITIVE ISSUES!! You needed courage to show that you are a human being in the 70s 80. Not today. And as for the Hon. Joseph Muscat may I suggest to him to read exPM Mintoff's speech to the Labour League of Youth (it was at the general conference) of 1976, I believe. He would surely learn something instead of being naive.

C.Sammut

Sep 18th 2009, 13:41

Can a professional obstetrician state if natural fertilisation occurs and there would be no implantation in the uterus because this happens at the wrong time of the menstrual cycle?