The following are the main stories in Thursday’s newspapers.

Times of Malta says a Health Department policy that an unborn baby is not recognised as a person at law has raised questions on the government’s intentions on abortion, despite the Prime Minister’s repeated denials it had no plan to legalise such a practice. In another story, the newspaper says Nationalist MP Hermann Schiavone suspended himself from the party following revelations by The Sunday Times of Malta that he and fellow MP Kristy Debono had met 17 Black owner Yorgen Fenech.

In-Nazzjon says PN leader Adrian Delia has accepted MP Hermann Schiavone’s decision to suspend himself from the party.

The Malta Independent quotes the Ombudsman saying Parliament was not acting on recommendations forwarded to it following inaction by the government.

L-Orizzont says the government has plans to strengthen care for sufferers of Parkinson’s disease.

In-Nazzjon says PN leader Adrian Delia has accepted MP Hermann Schiavone’s own suspension.

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