In her article ‘The best interests of the child’ (The Sunday Times of Malta, January 12), Therese Comodini Cachia said that “if it is time to consider our position on children, then the debate is not to take place as a side issue of civil unions”.

I suggest that if it is time to consider our position on children, then the debate is not to take place as if the child comes into the world at birth but at conception, and that “in the best interests of the unborn child” the well-being of the child in the womb should be given much greater importance by all, parents, professionals, politicians and MPs.

The womb is the child’s first environment and his or her wholesome development starts, and is shaped, in the womb.

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