Comments on: One in three babies is cut out of the womb

By: Uncle Fester

Uncle Fester — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 15:56:45 +0000

@Amanda Mallia. Medical experience? What medical experience? I stayed clear of this blog because I know absolutely nothing about the issue of giving birth much less giving birth by caesarean section.

The only thing I have to say on this issue is addressed to Daphne – the religious right’s political home in Malta is the Nationalist Party. That’s to say the party that you support. Daphne, hate to tell you this, your place is in New Labour not the PN. You are a progressive person on so many issues. The only thing keeping you in the PN is the fact that you feel that you were born into the Party. That coupled with the trauma of what you saw the country go through in the 1980s under Old Labour.

By: Amanda Mallia

Amanda Mallia — Fri, 13 Jun 2008 21:32:39 +0000

Uncle Fester – Maybe you could shed some light on this issue, given your medical experience. X’tahseb? (And I’m not being sarcastic here.)

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 18:43:10 +0000

David Schembri – take it from somebody who works in the field: their ineffectiveness is almost wholly to do with the fact that they are a bunch of middle-aged men banging on about what are essentially women’s issues. Now if they had spokespersons who were young women….

By: Albert Farrugia

Albert Farrugia — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:59:24 +0000

U halluna mill-Gift of Life. Why dont u take a look at what is happening at MLP HQ tonight! Or you haven´t heard yet?

By: Caphenni

Caphenni — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:42:34 +0000

I’ll gladly help them with their PR:

Create a campaign that is actually needed, even if just by one person.

By: David Schembri

David Schembri — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:34:53 +0000

That said, GoL might want to try different PR methods. They seem to be ever-so-slightly ineffective…

By: David Schembri

David Schembri — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 17:27:48 +0000

@Corinne Vella
I do not think my view of the matter requires a magnifying glass more than any other viewpoint expressed here: quoting Marshall Mc Luhan doesn’t seem to be the most straightforward way of going about interpreting things either.

I think, however, that important topics such as life and death issues require more thought and insight than others, in which case there is no problem whatsoever with using a magnifying lens to distinguish between concepts and schools of thought. The devil’s in the details they say.

@Caphenni
Read what I just said. Please.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:28:31 +0000

@Off topic, well in that case it’s not really off topic at all, is it?

By: Caphenni

Caphenni — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 16:05:22 +0000

@David
Isn’t that God’s job? Or doctors? Or the law’s? How do they hope to go about it?

Does it mean that they are going to have similar campaigns to make assisted suicides and euthanasia even more illegal too?

It’s a slippery slope. A very dangerous one where they are out to control people’s bodies and choices in the name of some God or something. I don’t like it.

By: Corinne Vella

Corinne Vella — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 15:49:08 +0000

David Schembri: If Gift of Life’s message can only be read with a magnifying glass then the fault is not in the interpretation of the message but in its formulation and transmission. If the medium is the message, a middle-aged man translates into “an instrumental view of the female body”. This may not be the intended message of Gift of Life but it is the one that is received by many.