Nationalist MP Eve Borg Bonello said she has received death threats on social media after her parliamentary speech on Monday where she clarified her stand against the abortion bill reform being proposed by the government.

During her speech, she spoke about the legal problems the abortion bill, as presented now, will bring about and how it counters the government’s pro-life stand.

She took to Facebook to reveal some of the death threats she received as a result of her open pro-life stand.

One comment said that they should “burn this witch” and anyone else who is against abortion. Another comment said, “this girl is a perfect example of why abortion is needed. I’m not sure whether she should have been aborted or if she survived an abortion.”

Borg Bonello said that she quoted legal and human rights experts like Giovanni Bonello in her speech to structure her argument.

“If the government is in favour of abortion, let’s be clear and have an honest debate. But please, let’s stop spinning facts, lying, hiding behind vague words and attacking people personally and wishing death upon them,” she said on Facebook.

She also found it ironic that she is constantly told that she is too young to have an opinion, whilst at the same time there are people discrediting the input of older people in this abortion debate.

“No matter your opinion on the issue, this is unacceptable. This is threatening language, against me, (a woman),” she said.

She said that she was not looking for “pity” with this post, as she is used to death threats. She is simply sick of the hypocrisy in this debate and is asking for a “more honest, civil, factual, legal, medical and civil debate.”

The Nationalist Party, in a statement, condemned the threats against the PN MP.

"In a democratic country it is unacceptable that representatives of the people would be the target of attacks like this for simply expressing themselves in favour of life, as thousands of Maltese and Gozitans had done in the national protest last Sunday," the party said.

The PN appealed to Prime Minister Robert Abela and the PL to join in the condemnation of such threats, "among other things by stopping instigating these kinds of attacks through the way their exponents speak."

The PN expressed solidarity with Eve Borg Bonello.