Ahead of a crucial vote the Maltese Parliament is set to undertake, which will legalise the genetic testing of embryos, PN MP Alex Borg took to social media to explain his position.
In the Facebook post, Borg said that he is totally in favour of granting any prospective parents any means of having a child.
However, he raised his concerns over the possibility of endangering or experimenting with life. ‘We did not come into this world to undermine or even alter or experiment. Every human life is a miracle different from the other. From the start.’
He said that parents should be given all chances to have children, ‘as long as this does not in any way endanger any life, even at its start.’
Borg has since come out as the second PN MP who might vote against the bill after former leader Adrian Delia also warned against possible endangerment. Delia said he will vote according to his conscience.
Nationalist Party leader Bernard Grech has since come out in favour of the IVF bill, despite being previously against it as he described it as ‘the selection of embryos.’ The government has also since accepted an amendment by the Opposition in the form of polar body testing on unfertilised oocytes.
This was already allowed in the bill’s protocol, but Health Minister Chris Fearne warned that it isn’t as effective as the genetic testing of full embryos.
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