Toni Abela insists he opposes abortion

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100131/local/toni-abela-insists-he-opposes-abortion

Labour deputy leader Toni Abela insisted yesterday he opposed abortion in the wake of comments he made on last Tuesday's TV discussion programme Dissett.
In a statement yesterday, Dr Abela said he would continue to be in favour of the right to life in accordance with his party's position.
On the programme, he said, he had been asked about a 2003 interview by a newspaper where he was questioned about abortion in the context of the war in the Balkans. Dr Abela had reiterated a position he had taken seven years ago when he said he agreed with abortion in specific cases, especially when it came to rape or children being born with disability.
Dr Abela said he was the only lawyer who had sought an injunction to stop a woman from going abroad to have an abortion.
"I gave the service against no payment, and as everyone who knows me knows, I do not fight cases I don't believe in," he continued.



The Independent
Sunday, 31th January 2010
The inherent values of human beings
http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=100876

The National Council of Women must be commended for speaking up against the depiction of men and women in a degrading and offensive manner, under the pretext of ‘fiction’ or ‘literary’ work.

I also support their statement that respect for human dignity is to be safeguarded and guaranteed, and that insulting images of men and women should not be allowed to proliferate. Turning persons into objects of lust violates the inherent value of human beings living in a civilised society.

Holding back write-ups, representations and broadcasting of pornography shows that society cares and will not allow itself to be pressured by lobby groups into giving up the defence of those vulnerable, perhaps through poverty or vices, to exploitation.

Those who really have at heart the well being of the vulnerable and the poor should campaign for a high moral standard and not for pseudo rights, which unleash camouflaged violent instincts in unprincipled moneyed and powerful sections of society and does not really cater to the common good.

Those who truly have the family at heart should speak out as the National Council of Women will do in the forthcoming Progett Impenn national conference slated for early February, and not toe the line of foreign organisations who envy Malta and Gozo’s much better society to that prevailing on the European continent and elsewhere.