The Labour Party has hit out at comments by Simon Busuttil during the IVF Bill debate in parliament on Tuesday, saying they were unacceptable.

It said that Dr Busuttil had adopted the attitude that couples who had a problem which prevented them from having children had to accept it.

Dr Busuttil was speaking in the context of LGBT couples when he made the remark. 

The Labour Party said this was not acceptable reasoning, since science offered solutions which had already been adopted by other countries. 

The parliamentary debate brought out the contrast between the government and the opposition, the PL said. While the Labour MPs underlined the need to understand infertile people, Nationalist MPs had been insensitive.