Pregnancy and the law
As a practising gynaecologist, I have been following the ongoing debate in this newspaper regarding pregnancy termination.
As I have stated in a previous contribution, one’s stand on this matter reflects one’s own personal moral and religious beliefs. It is a personal stand and one that cannot really be argued in the theatre of science.
However, the contribution ‘Giving women a choice’ by Christopher Barbara (December 19) requires a clarification.
Barbara quotes the law to state that the termination of a pregnancy is a criminal offence in Malta and proposes that the termination of an ectopic gestation must, therefore, also be deemed to be illegal and thereby questions the validity of the law or that the age-old practice of performing a salpingectomy in the case of an ectopic amounts to a criminal act.