Partit Demokratiku noted today that the principle of equity is not being upheld with the proposed changes regarding embryo freezing, once choice is going to be exercised between who is to be implanted and who is to be frozen during the IVF process.
It is unequivocal that the freezing of embryos goes against human life and human dignity.
Furthermore, the adoption of embryos which have been previously frozen is nothing short of an expedient and maladjusted compromise in order to dispense with life ‘conveniently’, if at all. The practice should be abolished unless one is constrained to do so as an emergency matter.
Life starts at conception, PD said in a statement. This is an established genetic and embryological fact. An embryo is genetically unique, biologically human, and has predetermined individual characteristics and intrinsic biological properties whose blueprint dictates development and growth.
Partit Demokratiku is of the firm opinion that natural laws are different from man-made laws, which are bestowed onto a person by a given legal system. These acquired rights can be modified, repealed and restrained.
Natural rights are not dependent on the laws or customs of any particular government. They are absolute. They are unalienable.
Thus the right to life is a fundamental human right and is superior to any man-made law.
Maltese law specifically and very clearly refers to the unborn child as a person and, a recipient of rights. This means that the unborn have all the rights of minors.
In our current legislation the unborn is a person, and the best interest of the child is above the interests of all, including parents. This means that the rights of the born or unborn child supersede those of one’s parents.
Embryo freezing is directly, a suspension of such rights. Termination of frozen embryos is not only a withdrawal of such rights but also the negation of the natural right to life. PD is against both practices.
Freedom of thought, opinion, liberty, and to the right to assemble are universal rights, but ultimately, liberty is the power that we bestow on ourselves. PD states that interfering with life, at any stage, most notably, during the most tender of stages, denies those universal rights to individuals.
More than surreal, it is obscene that the commissioner for children is oblivious to all this and is in favour of embryo freezing.
PD appeals to PM Joseph Muscat not to proceed with these amendments. They would give rise to the indiscriminate disposal of life which commands who lives, who may live later and who may not live at all. Let’s not be guilty of genocide.