Why such a rush?
The bill currently being enacted with such determination in parliament is essentially an authority for filtering out embryos suffering from a
Our cold indifference
Maltese society has lost its moral compass. The recent case of Lamin Jaiteh, left injured on the pavement by those who ought to have offe
Is there a god?
The discussions in these pages regarding God, religion and atheism bring to mind the following story.
All the wars had been fought and peace f
Missing the point about embryos
Christopher Barbara (May 6) completely misses the point made by Ivan Padovani’s note which highlighted the incontestable fact that every human adult was at one point a zygote.
Whether we should casually call the early embryo a “miniature baby” or not, no biologist could, or would, deny that she was a zygote at the earliest instant of her life.
I was once a zygote, even you, the reader of this letter was once a zygote. The argument for abortion is not a scientific one but an ideological one which is why Barbara rapidly shifts the line of thought away from science to one of social policy and women’s health.
Precursors to human persons
It has been rather amusing reading Ivan Padovani’s contribution (‘When life begins’, March 6) in which he asserts that my statements were of “questionable accuracy”. Similarly, John Pace (‘When human life begins’, March 11) accuses me of turning “mist into a fog”.
This is because people like Padovani and Pace who try to frame religious beliefs, such as “life begins at conception/fertilisation”, as scientific fact struggle to justify their assertions with any scientific proof because no such proof exists.
Here are some facts that readers may wish to consider before deciding whether a fertilised egg is truly a human person: