Partit Demokratiku MP Godfrey FArrugia was booted out of Parliament on Monday evening as tempers flared during a debate on the controversial IVF amendments.

Farrugia was kicked out of the chamber by Speaker Anglu Farrugia following a commotion between Parliamentary Secretary Julia Farrugia Porteli, Godfrey Farrugia, and his partner, PD MP Marlene Farrugia

The latter could be heard calling Portelli Farrugia a ‘purcinella’ (clown). The PS requested protection by the Speaker. 

The controversial Embryo Protection bill was being discussed when Farrugia Portelli and Marlene Farrugia got into a heated debate regarding the merits of money. It was then that an agitated Godfrey Farrugia was told by the Speaker to leave the room.

During his speech, Godfrey Farrugia said that should the proposed amendments pass, he would back an abrogative referendum to repeal embryo freezing.

Farrugia said the proposed amendments were dehumanizing humanity, and rendered the embryo into a commodity. He said he was not against assisted reproduction, which included IVF, but could not support embryo freezing.  Farrugia said no one had a right to decide which embryos get the chance to be born and which will remain frozen.