{"id":176931,"date":"2017-12-30T08:44:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-30T13:44:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=176931"},"modified":"2018-01-02T12:46:01","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T17:46:01","slug":"pro-life-beacon-malta-protects-preborn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/pro-life-beacon-malta-protects-preborn\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta is one of the most pro-life countries in the world"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a recent op-ed<\/a> for the Times of Malta, former Nationalist Party minister Tonio Frenech calls the pro-life country of Malta, an island in the Mediterranean Sea, a “beacon for life and protecting the unborn.” And certainly, given\u00a0Malta’s pro-life laws, this is the case. The country has consistently resisted pressure from the European Union to liberalize its abortion laws, and the government of Malta continues to protect human beings from fertilization onward — even those conceived in tragic circumstances like rape or incest. It is among the most pro-life countries in the world.<\/p>\n

In Frenech’s op-ed, he rebuts the reasoning of pro-abortion apologists who believe that the country should legalize abortion<\/a>. Some of these pro-abortion arguments include unprovable statements, he says, such as the idea that “scores of women” travel abroad to get abortions every year — something Frenech labels as “mere hearsay.”\u00a0It is an unsound idea to insist that laws should be changed because people are going to commit a certain act anyway, and therefore that act might as well be made legal. Laws should protect life.<\/p>\n

What isn’t<\/em> hearsay are the facts about Malta — and that embedded in its laws are the right to life for every person, including the preborn child.<\/p>\n