Edith Sciberras, a medical doctor who works also with the Commission on Domestic Violence, wrote a very good article (September 19 ) on violence during pregnancy highlighting also the great harm done to the unborn child besides that to the pregnant mother.

It is a pity that, apparently, the very exhaustive information on the great harm done to the unborn child when there is violence during a pregnancy  did not reach the Minister for European Affairs and Equality, who is responsible for the Commission on Domestic Violence.  

This year, in Parliament, the minister championed and succeeded in removing the clause on the protection of the unborn child from the domestic violence  law,  which had been passed unanimously by Parliament in 2006. Why? We don’t know.

Being close to the minister, Sciberras can try to pass on her article to the minister, even now, maybe some other day the minister will reverse her decision and come out again protecting the unborn child, by law, from violence during pregnancy. 

This applies also to all Labour lawmakers who, as national leaders on the government side, and representing the Maltese people, including about 8,000 unborn children annually, should stake their career, and their whole future, on a judgement of what they think is right and worthwhile for the common good, and not always, and only, on party loyalty.