I disagree totally with John White (‘Staying out of politics’, December 17). He has no business to denounce our great Archbishop Charles Scicluna for standing up for the unborn child.

Embryo freezing treats the embryo like a commodity. Children born as a result of it spend their whole lives seeking their true parents to establish their identity and not finding them.

How frustrating for them! We must think of the child, not just the parents who want a baby. They can easily adopt a baby and give it a good life.

White is not up to date with how the Maltese think. Only on December 6 a Rally4Life was held in front of the new House of Parliament and hundreds of people turned up with pro-life placards, balloons and T-shirts against embryo freezing.

The speakers were vociferously against the pro-life laws of Malta being changed and said so in no mean terms.
Gianna Jessen, an abortion survivor from America, came over to address the crowd and, being a cerebral palsy sufferer as a result of the failed abortion, she had to be helped to the microphone. Her touching words brought tears to our eyes and she spoke convincingly about keeping Malta pro-life.

She was cheered loudly and strongly by all the families gathered there. Other very good Maltese speakers explained how harmful the change in the law would be to Malta’s future generations. There were loud cheers from the crowd.

We are a small country with a big, Catholic heart. We respect the embryo, unlike the rest of the European Union states that think nothing of throwing away unwanted frozen embryos!

We like to be pro-life and that is why we have not got abortion. We may be small in size but we respect the dignity of human life and are proud of it.