No human life at conception

The heading as well as the first paragraph of Joe Zammit’s letter (February 7) is demonstrably wrong. Life starts well before conception; nobody will deny that eggs and sperm are living cells and human life starts well after conception. Common sense...

The heading as well as the first paragraph of Joe Zammit’s letter (February 7) is demonstrably wrong. Life starts well before conception; nobody will deny that eggs and sperm are living cells and human life starts well after conception.

Common sense tells us that an acorn is not (yet) an oak tree, a fertilised egg is not (yet) a chicken and an embryo is not (yet) a human being. Even the Catholic Church, despite rhetoric to the contrary, recognises this fact because embryos are not named, baptised or buried after miscarriage.

Is it even possible to imagine that a clump of a few cells has a soul, which will be reunited with said clump at the final resurrection?

Abortion is illegal in Malta. All political parties have declared themselves against abortion. What could possibly be achieved by a change in the Constitution?

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