These people are not ‘pro-life’ - Belle de Jong Nina Attard Montalto
Thousands of people took to the streets on Sunday to protest against a legal amendment that will allow doctors to perform an abortion to protect a woman’s life or health. The organisers claimed 20,000 people attended the demonstration. Thousands of ‘pro-life’ people got off their sofas to stand up against a potential legal amendment – a hypothetical situation in which an embryo or fetus is aborted when a woman’s life or health is in danger. You don’t see this type of rage about anything else in Malta. Not for the 20-year-old who was crushed to death under a collapsed building last Saturday, not for the countless women who were killed, not for Miriam Pace, not for the thousands of migrants dying at sea, not for Lassana Cisse who was allegedly shot by two Maltese soldiers for the colour of his skin and not even for Daphne. There are plenty of things these 20,000 people could be mad about: negligence in construction, rampant corruption, the total lack of environmental protection, the number of fatal accidents caused by drunk-driving, the authority’s apathetic attitude towards domestic violence or the justice system that allows murder suspects to be granted bail for over a...