Shadow minister for health Claudette Buttigieg believes that being 'pro-life' has gone "out of fashion", and said that NGOs representing these views should not be simply written off as being old fashioned.
Government whip Godfrey Farrugia cautioned his fellow MPs that allowing embryo freezing was tantamount to being "an accomplice to murder".
The above comments were made this evening in parliament during a debate on the budget estimates of the Embryo Protection Authority.
Mrs Buttigieg asserted that when the issue of embryo freezing was ignited by Prime Minister Joseph Muscat earlier this year, the intention was to deviate from the number of political scandals. She said that parliament was discussing the issue this evening "serenely" due to a report issued on the matter, allowing for calm discussion.
Health Minister Chris Fearne said that currently, there are two frozen embryos at Mater Dei hospital. This is because the mother of the embryos fell seriously unwell after the eggs were extracted and fertilised through an IVF process. Currently, the law allows for embryo freezing in exceptional circumstances such as the one just described.
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