It was with sadness that I read that the Women’s Rights Foundation has taken a position in favour of abortion. When these people had come out in favour of the morning-after pill they had said, or rather their leading spokeswoman Lara Dimitrijevic had said, that they had no position on abortion. Well now, just a year later, it seems they do.

It’s very convenient to declare, in a very patronising tone, that abortion is a human right, which it isn’t. The foundation has no right to force its agenda down our throats, and ignore the vast majority of people.

Perhaps for the foundation the Maltese public is only the 465 women who bought abortion pills between 2013 and 2018? Never mind the remaining 420,000 Maltese, and that includes me. We have no say in all this! Rather selective, don’t you think?

I’m sorry but unborn children, who might have come into existence under difficult, maybe even traumatic, circumstances, through no fault of their own, should not just be given a death sentence.

They too have the right to live. Ms Dimitrijevic, what about their human rights? Human rights are not selective. The proverbial children of a lesser God?

Even if every country in the world were to decriminalise abortion, that doesn’t make it right for us to follow suit. In country after country, actions, in my opinion, misguided in scope, have opened the doors to the mega business of human slaughter which knows no bounds. That’s what abortion clinics are after all, slaughterhouses, whatever way you look at them.