{"id":281105,"date":"2022-12-06T16:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-12-06T22:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=281105"},"modified":"2022-12-06T13:58:37","modified_gmt":"2022-12-06T19:58:37","slug":"thousands-protest-pro-abortion-amendment-malta","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/thousands-protest-pro-abortion-amendment-malta\/","title":{"rendered":"Thousands protest pro-abortion amendment in Malta"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Thousands of protestors gathered in Valletta, Malta, on Sunday, December 4, to protest proposed <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/malta-pm-abortion-legalize-opponents-disagree\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">changes<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to that nation\u2019s abortion law. Organizers <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/thousands-demand-stop-abortion-amendments-valletta-rally.999424\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> they believed about 20,000 people attended. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/thousands-demand-stop-abortion-amendments-valletta-rally.999424\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> to the Times of Malta, the crowd carried pink and white signs reading \u201cKeep abortion out of Malta,\u201d \u201cProtect our children,\u201d and \u201cI don\u2019t have a voice.\u201d They also chanted, \u201cNo to abortion, yes to life\u201d as they marched from Castille, the office of the Prime Minister, toward the law courts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Former center-left president Marie-Louise Coleiro Preca led the protest, and marched alongside other protestors behind a banner reading, \u201cThe government amendment will introduce abortion.\u201d Catholic Archbishop Charles Scicluna was in attendance, along with the leader of the evangelical group River of Love, Gordon Manche. Nationalist Party opposition leader Bernard Grech and former opposition leader <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/malta-president-resign-abortion-bill\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Adrian Delia<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> also attended.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Speakers included former president Coleiro Preca, who <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/thousands-demand-stop-abortion-amendments-valletta-rally.999424\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">told<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the crowd: &#8220;The lack of clarity in this amendment concerns me and many others. It is not putting our mind at rest that abortion will not enter our country.\u201d She said the issue merits serious discussion, and cuts across religious and political divisions. She urged the media to be \u201cethical\u201d when reporting on this issue, and to reflect \u201cthe rights of the mother and the child that is without a voice.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: none; overflow: hidden;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Ffreehourmalta%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0oqE6WNVtYiq1asX5mg4gHSDqpUn3e5E42m9q3WySvaLxN5yuiSDSAEc7PQLL4KQ1l&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"707\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Retired judge Giovanni Bonello also <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/thousands-demand-stop-abortion-amendments-valletta-rally.999424\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">spoke<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> via video call, saying the proposed amendment was unnecessary and would open the door to abortion on demand. &#8220;No nurse, no doctor, or woman was taken to court because the pregnancy was terminated to safeguard the mothers life,&#8221; Bonello said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Maria Formosa of the I See Life Group said they were there to speak for the preborn. &#8220;With an abortion you always lose a life,&#8221; she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/thousands-demand-stop-abortion-amendments-valletta-rally.999424\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. &#8220;We know there are women who suffer from many problems, health and social problems, but abortion is not the answer. The answer is to provide the right support.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Protest organizer and Life Network Foundation leader Miriam Sciberras was last to speak. \u201cNights away from Christmas, this amendment has come up, to kill a baby, without any form of discussion,\u201d she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/timesofmalta.com\/articles\/view\/thousands-demand-stop-abortion-amendments-valletta-rally.999424\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">said<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. &#8220;This is not a door or window to abortion, but a runway to abortion. We safeguard so many minorities, so many laws to protect animals, the environment, laws protect turtle eggs \u2013 but we don&#8217;t support the life in a womb?&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Sciberras also announced that the Life Network Foundation will hold a candlelight vigil on Wednesday, December 7 at 6pm in front of Parliament.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/pledge.liveaction.org\/?utm_source=lan&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=prolife_pledge\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-277267\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/pledge-live-action-ad-970x250-700x180.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"700\" height=\"180\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of protestors gathered in Valletta, Malta, on Sunday, December 4, to protest proposed changes to that nation\u2019s abortion law. Organizers said they believed about 20,000 people attended. According to the Times of Malta, the crowd carried pink and white signs reading \u201cKeep abortion out of Malta,\u201d \u201cProtect our children,\u201d and \u201cI don\u2019t have a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":788,"featured_media":281108,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false},"categories":[5,3473,11],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Thousands protest pro-abortion amendment in Malta<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"An estimated 20,000 protestors gathered in Valletta, Malta, on Sunday, December 4, to protest proposed changes to that nation\u2019s abortion law.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" 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