Gift of Life calls for opposition to abortion resolution
The anti-abortion lobby has urged Malta’s representatives on the Council of Europe to adhere to Malta’s pro-life stand and work to oppose a resolution aimed at facilitating access to abortion.
The resolution in question follows a report drafted by UK Socialist Christine McCafferty, Women’s Access To Lawful Medical Care, which deals with the option of medical practitioners refusing to offer or deliver a service to patients which they personally find morally objectionable.
A draft resolution based on this report, Gift Of Life said, invites European states to restrain the exercise of so called conscientious objection to facilitate access to services like abortion, assisted reproduction, sterilisation, euthanasia and contraception.
“We are particularly concerned with the fact that this report stands on the biased assertion that practices like abortion and euthanasia are a form of healthcare and a human right. It, therefore, implies and promotes them as fundamental rights and a regular form of healthcare that should be regulated like any other medical service,” it said.
GOL added that the report also attacked the autonomy of healthcare professionals and suggested that if healthcare providers were not prepared to offer legal, efficient and beneficial care to a patient because it conflicted with their values, they should not practise medicine.
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Joe Zammit
Sep 4th 2010, 20:33
Par. 2271 of the Catechism of the Catholic Church runs:
“Since the first century the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion, that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely contrary to the moral law:
You shall not kill the embryo by abortion and shall not cause the newborn to perish.
God, the Lord of life, has entrusted to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes.”
Robert Callus
Sep 4th 2010, 11:03
The biggest cause of abortion is without any single doubt unwanted pregnancies. So why is an anti-abortion organization against contraception? Can someone from GoL read my blog and prove me wrong?
http://robertcallus.wordpress.com/2010/06/22/gift-of-lifes-real-agenda/
colin stanley
Sep 4th 2010, 12:12
Do you want us to believe that youngsters are getting pregnant, because it is a sin to use a condom, that they are afraid to go against the church's teachings, according to people like you, this is 2010, not the Inquisition.. or is it as the M altese saying goes,( Meta ir-ras izghira tkun fil glorija ir-ras il kbira titlef il memorja ). get it !!!
Robert Callus
Sep 4th 2010, 12:22
@Colin Stanley
No that isn't my point. What I am saying is that these guys are discussing the least important issues. I believe that what I am suggesting will save more lives of unborn children than what GoL consider as the their top (and only) priorities.
Raymond Bezzina
Sep 4th 2010, 12:51
@ Robert Callus
I think that the answer to your first question is easy.
God's Commandments are ten: Abortion violates the fifth, and contraception
violates the sixth.
Breaking any of the commandments is wrong; it's evil. For anyone to avoid breaking
the fifth commandment does not justify in breaking the sixth. It is not permissable
to break a commandment to avoid breaking another.
Robert Callus
Sep 4th 2010, 13:11
Why should religion enter into everything? I am against abortion and Im an atheist. Obviously I believe contraception should be promoted and taught about. If it breaks some commandment is just a religious issue. I'm against abortion because I believe in life. Religion has nothing to do with it.
Joe Zammit
Sep 4th 2010, 10:34
Abortion is always the killing and murder of innocent persons. No reason can ever justify abortion, not even the mother’s health.
The end does not justify the means. The end must be morally good and the means used to attain that end must also be morally good.
Abortion is always immoral. It can never be admitted for any reason whatsoever!
patrick zammit
Sep 4th 2010, 11:19
So according to you, in a situation where both the mother and her unborn child will die due to complications, it is immoral to sacrifice the unborn child to save the mother?
So, doing nothing and leaving both to die justifies the end.
So, ending up with both dead is better than ending with one dead?
martin saliba
Sep 4th 2010, 14:08
There are instances where abortion is acceptable such as in rape and the life of the mother.
If you dont agree its your problem should you ever have to decide between your wife who is needed to take care of yours and her children or your unborn child. It is a very difficult decision and would not want it on anbody but it has to be made and the right decision would be to save the mother first and then do your best for the child.
David Borg
Sep 4th 2010, 14:38
Mr Patrick Zammit, this is very rare case. I think one should attempt to save both the baby and the mother. If this is not possible I think one should save the person who has the highest chance of survival.
Abortion in this case can be acceptable according to the principle of double effect that is an act which has both positive and negative effects.
patrick zammit
Sep 4th 2010, 15:56
D Borg
Agreed, such cases are rare. Not so is the case of a pregnancy resulting in a pregnancy. I would definitely not want a child in me that came about as a result of rape.
I was replying to JZ in a bid to shake him out of his dogmatic mind re "The end does not justify the means.".