Gift of Life 'startled' by MP's comment

Gift of Life, the pro-life lobby group, said today it was ' very startled' about the reported call by Labour MP Michael Farrugia for a debate in the Social Affairs Committee on the use and implications of the morning-after pill, as reported on The...

Gift of Life, the pro-life lobby group, said today it was ' very startled' about the reported call by Labour MP Michael Farrugia for a debate in the Social Affairs Committee on the use and implications of the morning-after pill, as reported on The Times.

It said the morning-after pill was not only a contraceptive, but it could also act to prevent a fertilized human life from implanting within the mother's womb when breakthrough pregnancy occured, thus causing an abortion.

The group said it wanted to caution that in other countries, the debate for the legalization of abortion invariably began with what were conveniently termed as special cases such as with rape or child deformity.

The group said it was urging Dr Joseph Muscat and Dr Lawrence Gonzi to take a definite stand on the proposed amendment to the Constitution to unequivocally give right to life protection to the child within the womb from conception.

"The fact that the political parties have not yet taken a definite stand on the constitutional amendment to clearly guarantee that life begins at conception is all the more worrying given these developments," the group said.

See also

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090922/local/mps-open-to-debate-on-morning-after-pill

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