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What if our Family Planning Advisory Service did not exist?

What if our Family Planning Advisory Service did not exist?
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Letters to the editor - July 11, 2021

Many peoplein Malta are pro-choice We refer to the article by Ramon Bonett Sladden entitled ‘In defence of the president’ (June 27). In October 2019, we were invited for a meeting with President George Vella. This invitation was a response to our public outcry at the time, objecting to his patronage at a screening of an unscientific anti-abortion propaganda film in an event organised by Life Network Foundation. Doctors for Choice Malta had already built its momentum with a large following after voicing its concerns with several important issues and our concern with the position taken by the president did not go unnoticed.

Decriminalising versus legalising abortion: what s the difference?

When independent MP Marlene Farrugia presented a private member’s bill proposing the decriminalisation of abortion in Malta, temperatures soared, as vested parties on both sides made the case on why abortion should or should not be legislated. However, there is a key difference between decriminalisation and legalisation. Abortion in Malta is legislated by articles 241(1) and 242, which both prohibit anyone from getting an abortion and imposes a penalty on the person who terminates a pregnancy and any person who assists them. A guilty sentence carries a prison term of anything between 18 months up to three years. Farrugia’s bill is proposing that these articles be struck off and instead be replaced by a provision imposing 10 years in prison for anyone who carries out a forced or non-consensual abortion.

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