Labour’s Parliamentary group was unanimous behind the IVF bill which was based on equality and favoured life, Prime Minister Joseph Muscat said this evening.

Speaking during a ceremony to celebrate Freedom Day, he said the debate would be put on Parliament’s agenda after the Easter recess. This was a Bill, he said, which should unite and not divide.

The Prime Minister said that in its first five years the government addressed wealth and its distribution. This was at a time while important changes were also undertaken, such as equal marriage for all, the removal of censorship and the granting of supremacy to the civil courts over ecclesiastical ones.

This was, however, not enough.

“We have to renew our commitment to freedom by renewing the country,” he said.

He warned that there would be those who will try to instill fear of change but as the generation that acquired freedom 39 years ago had not been afraid, neither should the present generation.

Changes leading to a greater representation of women in decision making position, he said, should be based on the principle of equality.

Another planned change, the Prime Minister said, was to the Constitution to prepare this for future generation with institutions which promoted unity.

Because the renewed Constitution would be built on unity because a united country would turn from the best in Europe to the envy of the world.