Irresponsible behaviour
A few hours ago, I witnessed irresponsible and unscrupulous behaviour at one of Msida’s zebra crossings.
I am still in shock and
A contradiction
Whether we believe it or not, in Malta we are moving, quite rapidly, towards a throw-away culture. This is clearly evident in the latest propos
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.