Small parties clash on abortion in televised debate

The major political parties were introducing abortion by stealth, Ivan Grech Mintoff, leader of the small Abba party told a televised political debate on Monday.

He said the big parties' support for abortion could already be seen through their support for the abortive morning-after pill and the actions in the EU institutions, he said, of Roberta Metsola and Helena Dalli.

“The government and the Nationalist Party want to introduce abortion, and if on 26 March you vote for them, you, not the parties, will be introducing abortion into our country,” Grech Mintoff said.

Abortion does not feature in either the PL or the PN’s election manifestoes and both the prime minister and the leader of the opposition have voiced their opposition, while being open to discussion. Both the Labour Party and Nationalist Party are promising to provide free contraceptives to women, including the morning-after pill. 

In a dig at recent comments by former Labour minister Joe Debono Grech comparing the big parties to the good and bad thieves at the crucifixion,  Grech Mintoff said his party chose the man in the middle, Christ and followed his teaching. 

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