Those who vote for abortion should not be called Maltese – John Vassallo

Since Robert Abela took over from Joseph Muscat and promised continuity, Malta has been thrown into what amounts to a dictatorship. Apparently, the elected and co-opted MPs on the government side have decided to stop thinking and acting independently of their whip and their party diktats in matters of conscience, turning them from representatives of their electors into Abela’s yes-men.

The last straws are two bills. One would force through a parliamentary standards commissioner by changing the law requiring appointment by two-thirds majority to one needing only a simple majority of yes-men and women. The second bill, now in committee stage, is the more serious: the government has no mandate to introduce abortion and has promised multiple times that it would never do so.

The government is trying to fool the public that a foetus and an embryo are different things and that neither is human. This is nonsense and goes against the teachings of our national religion, the Catholic faith.

Most MPs are professed Catholics and even those who are not represent a majority of their electors who are. In principle, our MPs who approve this law would be declaring that there is no human life at...