Hackneyed abortion and divorce link

I refer to two letters which appeared on March 25.

Paul Vincenti, whom I collaborated with three years ago when I was militating against an abortion resolution in the Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe, tried to denigrate my pro-marriage stand in a recent article by using the hackneyed divorce-abortion pseudo-connection.

I would like to refer him to the following quote from Lifesitenews (April 16, 2008 “Assembly member Jeffrey Pullicino Orlando, representing Malta, a country which upholds the right to life of all children, born and unborn, opposed the resolution, warning that ‘a society which destroys its young condemns itself to oblivion’.”

Not that I had to because he knows exactly how hard the delegation I headed worked against the resolution in question.

It is shameful that he and others who are attacking those of us who are in favour of the introduction of responsible divorce try to imply, regularly, that we are in any way in favour of the introduction of abortion.

In a separate letter Pierre and Mireille Cordina seem to imply that I tried to mislead the House when I quoted what Mr Cordina said in a recent The Times interview (March 3 “If the state had a divorce law it would be very easy for me to start getting nagging thoughts like: ‘Am I really going to spend all my life with Mireille?’ Every day I will start considering the option of divorce.”

I stand by what I said in the House during the recent divorce debate. If this is the way he and the anti-divorce movement really see things they have a manifestly skewed perception about the institution of marriage.