Full marks to Marie Benoit for her very erudite diary, Life Network: Making abortion unthinkable (TMIS, January) and for her appeal to readers to support Life Network with a donation. Our respective fathers, colleagues in the Malta Civil Service in days gone by, were good friends, both having raised large families and who certainly followed the pro-life principle.

Apart from complimenting Marie for her very valuable input against the horrors of killing the innocent who are unable to defend themselves, I wish to commend Dr Miriam Sciberras and co-members of the Life Network Foundation for striving without fear to pursue such a noble cause.

I take the opportunity of adding two salient quotations about the scourge of abortion. Pope St John Paul II said, on the feast of The Holy Innocents, “Today a similar slaughter continues in the form of abortion. The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn. On this day we remember and pray for the souls of all the innocent children – born or unborn – who, through the culture of death (whether through abortion, infanticide or war), have lost their precious lives because, like Herod’s slaughter, of the darkness and evil of the human heart”.

St Mother Theresa of Calcutta also famously said: “We are fighting abortion by adoption …. We have sent word to the clinics, to the hospitals and police stations. ‘Please do not destroy the child … once the child is delivered and if the mother wishes we will take the child and give it to a married couple who will care and love the child’.”

It is beyond comprehension that members of the pro-abortion lobby in Malta, sadly including some doctors, promote the culture of death, completely ignoring the fact that there are many married couples who are yearning to adopt a child. So why emulate Herod by murdering innocents?

 

Anthony R. Curmi

St Julian’s