LEST WE FORGET – THE LIFE NETWORK FOUNDATION ARE COMPULSIVE LIARS

It really shows that you have no argument when you must repeatedly resort to lies, even those already proven to be so, to defend your religious beliefs that you mask as “science”. Miriam Sciberras’ opinion piece in The Times of Malta of January 22 is a case in point. Let me list her four major lies and half-truths and expose them one by one.

1. “Abortion targets human beings in their most vulnerable state”.

While it is true that a foetus is helpless in its state, it is equally true that at least until the 24^th week of gestation, a foetus cannot experience anything since it would not have yet obtained a sufficiently developed brain to make it aware of anything, feel anything or even know it exists at all. One can only describe as vulnerable, beings to whom it matters what happens to them. At least early to mid-term foetuses (on which most abortions are performed) can only be described as vulnerable if one describes as vulnerable any other beings or things that are equally not aware of their existence.

2. “So many women are hurt and families devastated. So many women and girls are traumatized for years on end by abortion”.

A simple Google search will show you studies that show that five years after having an abortion, over 95 percent of women said abortion was the right decision for them. So while it may be true that a minority might regret having an abortion, this is not so in 95 percent of the cases.

3. “Multimillionaire giants and big tech companies continue pushing the abortion agenda. They censor pregnancy centres and pro-life groups”.

The first part of the statement panders to conspiracy theorists, so I’ll just ignore it.  Any claim without evidence may be dismissed without evidence.  As for “censoring” pregnancy centres, I suppose Miriam Sciberras is referring to legislation in some countries that prohibits the harassment (both physical and verbal) of women entering pregnancy centres and clinics by forced birth activists. As for censorship of pro-life groups, her published opinion piece in Malta’s leading newspaper (complete with uncorrected half-truths and lies) proves her claim to be a self-proven lie.

4. “Investigative journalism conveniently went on holiday mode. The truth is now coming out as we hear the experts testify in a court of law, that Prudente was never at risk of dying (and) the Prudente baby also had a chance of surviving”.

Far from investigative journalism being on holiday mode, only three days following the testimony she refers to, The Times of Malta published a fact-seeking report that among other things found that none of the foetuses in the observed cases (in the study used by the court witness) at 17 or 18 weeks survived. Ms Prudente suffered a ruptured membrane at 15 weeks, so going just by the study used by the State’s witness, Prudente’s foetus had no chance of survival. As for Ms Prudente never being at risk of dying, Sciberras would demand that a pregnant woman should wait to be at the brink of death before the pregnancy is terminated, risking her life for the sake of a non-viable foetus that will die anyway. If she would take that useless risk herself, no one would stop her. But she (and anyone else) should not impose that risk on anyone.

Can the forced birth lobby even write one paragraph without uttering a half-truth or a downright proven lie? They should change their name to Lie Network Foundation.