Malta registered a high rate of teenage pregnancies compared to other countries because it did not have legal abortion, the Gift of Life said.
Reacting to a statement by Alternattiva Zghazagh, which suggested that Malta’s high rate of teenage pregnancy was due to the lack of an educational programme for young people in the use of contraception, Gift of Life said that teenage pregnancy rates in other countries did not take into consideration the aborted babies who never saw light of day.
It said that the United Kingdom had one of the most aggressive sexual education programmes in all of Europe with state funded condoms regularly given out to teenage children in school across the country.
However, this country registered 17,916 teenage abortions in 2009 out of a total of 189,100 total abortions.