Comments on: Foreign Minister says to you: “You’re not qualified to speak about abortion.”

By: Major Tom

Major Tom — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 15:30:00 +0000

It is more likely that he is in transit than not. He’d tell you one thing and do another just as he did in the case of the vote of confidence concerning Mizzi and Schembri.

By: callixtus

callixtus — Wed, 11 Jan 2017 14:13:00 +0000

His conscience should have obliged him to speak when abortions were routinely carried out, with the blessing of the authorities, at St Luke’s Hospital during the “Golden Years of Labour”.

By: Maria Brincat

Maria Brincat — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 21:23:00 +0000

Of course…they’re pregnant too, aren’t they?

By: Francis Saliba MD

Francis Saliba MD — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 18:18:00 +0000

The wheel that is being invented is the attempted moral justification of the unnatural killing of a helpless child growing inside the protective womb of its mother who should be cherishing that developing child not destroying it.

By: Maria Brincat

Maria Brincat — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 14:43:00 +0000

In reply to Daphne Caruana Galizia. Loved his opening sentence: "I've done about all the reading it is possible to do on this subject". I guess he expects us to be impressed. Funny, though, how a man (who will never be faced by the situation of a woman considering an abortion) sees fit to consider himself an expert.

By: c schembri

c schembri — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:51:00 +0000

Arrogance often comes with ignorance and vice versa. This clown is a living proof.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:22:00 +0000

‘Changing nappies’ is a cipher, Dr Saliba. In the age of the disposable, it’s not a nappy that’s the problem. It’s the idea that when a man changes a nappy, he’s earning brownie points and doing a favour to the child’s mother. The mother doesn’t mind changing nappies, but she does mind this attitude. This is not a revelation. Having spent many years of my life in the constant company of mothers of young children, I know what I’m talking about. Our world was one in which men spoke of “babysitting” when they were left in sole charge of their own children. Let’s hope it’s not so bad one generation down the line.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 13:14:00 +0000

What is ‘legalised fraud’? It is either fraud or it is legal.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:47:00 +0000

You have no right to control whether women become or stay pregnant. That is the point at issue.

By: Daphne Caruana Galizia

Daphne Caruana Galizia — Tue, 10 Jan 2017 12:39:00 +0000

That’s the trouble: you deal on a daily basis with people who have problems conceiving. And that skews your perspective because you forget that for every woman who wants to conceive there are thousands who don’t.

And forcing women to stay pregnant who don’t want to be is not going to help your patients conceive and stay pregnant. So your argument, besides being completely inhumane, is also completely illogical.

‘My fair share of nappies’ – every man I have ever known says that. As though it is a ‘share’ in which you do your bit. I have yet to meet a woman who counts the nappies she changes and thinks of it as doing her fair share.

Your wife must have had a lovely time struggling alone with four children while you were off testing other men’s willies after doing your ‘fair share’ in the house.

Quite frankly, I think men should stay off the subject of whether women should be forced to stay pregnant or not. Do you not even realise how appalling it sounds, when a man says that a woman HAS TO remain pregnant? For the sake of common sense alone, just stay off the subject.

Your lack of empathy is horrendous.