The gift of life – Claudio Farrugia

“Have you not heard of that madman who lit a lantern in the bright morning hours, ran to the marketplace and cried incessantly: ‘I am looking for God! I am looking for God!’ God is dead. And we have killed him,” concluded Nietzsche.

By today’s standards, in a culture of death, Mary would have been counselled to terminate her pregnancy. For what reason should a young person take on the stigma, anguish and destitution of her circumstances?

Yes, God would have been dead and the world as we know it today would look very different indeed.

Michael Sandel, a philosopher at Harvard, argues that, often, the abortion debate is emblematic of the liberal reluctance to engage in ‘substantive’ public discourse on important issues. This is exactly what Malta’s current government is doing.

Through the proposed amendment, which is intended to simply be rubber-stamped by parliament, the state is trying to shift the topic away from the ethical and religious considerations surrounding abortion. Our learned and experienced professionals read through this ploy and it won’t sway those who view abortion as murder. This bill is being simply pushed through without serious consideration of its...