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Unborn on death row

I never cease to be amazed and saddened at the triviality with which some these days seem to treat human life – their own “species” as they are often wont to say.

If we fail to defend our own kind from the start of life... what hope is there for mankind?
- Gerie Cowie, London, UK

The arbitrary way in which decisions are made as to when human life begins is also of concern. Life has to begin at the moment of conception. It seems logical to me that the beginning is the beginning, whether or not one has a healthy respect for that life. The decision not to allow that human being with potential to develop within the safety of the womb is misguided, rather the unborn human being is seen as a potential human rather than a real one.

Denigrating the human embryo in a way demeaning to humanity, calling it a meaningless ball of cells, attempts to deny its true humanity.

It then becomes convenient for disposal if people can be persuaded that it is not yet human – just another cheapened commodity.

The fact that people seek to defend human life means that we face various nonsensical accusations, one of the most common of which is that only religious people respect life.

This is poor spin indeed. And of course it is a total insult to the many millions of people with no religion who still value human life.

Those who comment against life seem to conveniently forget that they are alive today because their own parents chose life. Yet they are still happy to arbitrarily declare the lives of others as being valueless, meaningless and unreal.

If we fail to defend our own kind from the start of life, remembering how vulnerable the unborn are, particularly when developing within the safety of the womb, what hope is there for mankind?

I would say that those who either promote, encourage or support abortion, are acting as judge and jury to the baby in the womb, and that womb becomes a condemned cell in a human death row.

They are seduced by the pro-abortion movement’s persuasive arguments, often based on an anti-religious stance instead of a pro-human one.

The defenceless and downtrodden have always needed the protection of other people. Who will stand up for the unborn?

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Franco Farrugia

Feb 12th, 12:47

''Thank goodness that Malta remains firmly pro-life.'
That is why we don't need further legislation and changes in the Constitution regarding same! Got that, at last, sir?

Karl Consiglio

Feb 8th, 20:59

Gerry,

Whenever someone disagrees with you, you just label it off as a negative comment. Its not fair.

Wally Vella-Zarb

Feb 8th, 22:39

"Well, there you go, look at what I have written and then look at what the negative commenters have written!"

Fair enough, since you have asked, I would say that the score is now Three for the 'negatives' and One for Don Quixote as far as convincing goes.

As for your usual inane remark about how "their own parents chose life", what is that supposed to mean? The parents of Attila the Hun, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Josip Stalin, Pol Pot, George W.Bush - and even your own for that matter - made the same choice... Was it a good choice?

P. Vincenti

Feb 8th, 22:29

It would seem that some think that unless you are a dog that has been beaten by its owner, one cannot interfere with an owner who beats his dog.

By the same ridiculous argument, if Calleja has never been pregnant, he has no place arguing for abortion

Franco Farrugia

Feb 12th, 12:45

@ Joseph Calleja: I disagree 100% with you. Women know what they should do if they don't want to get pregnant.

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