We welcome the pro-life vote of MEPs David Casa and Simon Busuttil with regards to a resolution on
HIV/AIDS which took place on Thursday 8th July 2010. Unfortunately, this just resolution also contained language that could usually be interpreted to accommodate the provision of abortion services and both these MEPS have stated that they voted against this resolution.
Voting records were not made public as no roll call was called for in the lead up to the vote on this resolution. Consequently, we welcome the fact that both these MEPs volunteered information on their voting performance.
On the 9th of July, Gift of Life asked the PL MEPS to make a similar declaration. This was requested so that the foundation would be able to include their position in a public statement.
By the time we issued this press release on Sunday the 11th July we had not received feedback from the PL MEPs.
Our aim is to continue to inform the electorate on the pro-life voting performance of all our MEPs however we depend on the cooperation of our MEPs to achieve this.
It is becoming increasingly commonplace within the EU parliament for resolutions to be presented with the inclusion of pro abortion language by stealth. As with a recent resolution on the Millennium Development Goals, this was also the case with this resolution. Promoters of abortion are aware that it is harder for pro-life MEPS to vote against pro abortion language when this is presented together with other just initiatives.
The effects of pornography – July 2010 Sunday Times of Malta
Psychologist Edward Donnerstein (University of Wisconsin) found that even brief exposure to violent forms of pornography can lead to anti-social attitudes and behaviour. Male viewers tend to be more aggressive towards women, less responsive to the pain and suffering of rape victims, and more willing to accept various myths about rape.
Dr. Dolf Zimmerman and Dr. Jennings Bryant showed that continued exposure to pornography had serious adverse effects on beliefs about sexuality in general and on attitudes toward women in particular. They also found that pornography desensitizes people to rape as a criminal offence. Exposure to pornography results in negative effects on sexual relationships, with a greatly increased occurrence of sexual disappointment in marriage. Pornography has been seen to have negative repercussions on marriages, leading also to marital breakdown and abuse. Evidence also shows that up to 70% of pornographic material ends up in the hands of minors and about 1.2 million children worldwide are exploited directly or indirectly by pornography.
In their rush to defend the right to choose to watch pornography in the privacy of one’s own hotel-room, those who oppose censorship have totally avoided talking about the severe effects that pornography has on society as a whole. In its quest for public access to absolutely everything, secularism often intentionally downgrades the negative effects of important immoral issues such as pornography, divorce, abortion, etc., reasoning that their consequences are insignificant when weighed against what is held to be the absolute right: that of choice.
This mindset is damaging and very dangerous. It assumes that having the free choice for anything, society will by and large maturely make the right choices, It also seems to assume that any adverse consequences will only be suffered by the abusing immature individual and not by society at large.
On 9th June, 2010, it was reported in this paper that representatives from two local hotels defended the provision of pornographic pay-services to foreign customers in their hotel- rooms.
I have much respect for both these hotels, however I have serious reservations about some of the claims made by these in the defence of this service. Having worked in the tourist industry for almost 18 years myself, I seriously doubt that the absence of a pornographic TV service in local hotel-rooms will curtail the vacation or business trip of visitors in any noticeable numbers.
Those who seek accommodation abroad through the internet will not find there such information on whether the hotel provides in-room pornographic TV services. This is information that is not included in advertisement sites on the net. In fact, the two hotels in question do not advertise this service on their website. Their website only states that pay TV is available in their hotel-rooms, where pay TV is a very generic name for all sorts of channels. The truth of the matter is that hotels reap great profit from customers paying to watch pornography on their room TVs. For local hotels to suggest that our islands’ competitiveness will diminish if these obscene channels were to be removed is just not believable.
What is even more deeply disturbing than hotels trying to make money off pornography watchers in their rooms is the philosophy behind all this. Today the individual is considered to be the end all of life on earth. Society as a collection of individuals who live the quality of life they actually enjoy because they belong to society and who therefore owe that society much is a truth that is sadly forgotten – to everyone’s determent. Those who militate for the absolute, unlimited right of choice of the individual actually end up destroying the very individual they are out to defend, for an individual’s life is very much like the cell in a living organism. Indeed the cell has a life of its own, but not outside of the general life and well-being of the whole organism. If the organism is not served by the individual cells and if the organism is dying or sick, than the cell itself, even if healthy for some time, will eventually become sick or die along with the organism.
Press release Gift of Life, 22nd June 2010. 14.40hrs
We applaud all Maltese MEPs for voting against pro-abortion terminology and language in paragraphs 42 part 2 and 3 of the Cashman report. This report states the European parliaments’ position on the UN Millennium Development Goals. The vote was taken on 15th June 2010.
Regretfully, despite having initially voted in a pro-life manner, the two MEPs from the PL then went on to vote in favour of the entire resolution containing the very same language that they had previously voted against.
‘The wilful killing of an unborn child can never be justified. Mothers require support to keep their child and not mechanisms to kill their offspring. We see is no clear reason, based on conclusive evidence, for sexual and reproductive health to be singled out as being an area of particular concern in ensuring public health for expectant mothers. Access to other primary health services such as skilled birth attendants as well and better basic health care during pregnancy, have proved to be far more effective in reducing rates of maternal mortality. Countries with the most restrictive rules so far as access to abortion is concerned have the lowest levels of maternal mortality’
Xarabank on 10th May 2010 – come on the show!
Xarabank are recording a programme on abortion on the 10th May2010(Monday) at 8pm. We are asking you to support the movement and book a place on the TV show by calling Xarabank on 21249200 or email on
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Please, we need the support of pro-life people in the audience. Help us and encourage the +9 movement by coming on show support for the unborn child and also for the women who are hurt by abortion
German researchers say babies begin to pick up the nuances of their parents' accents while still in the womb.
The researchers studied the cries of 60 healthy babies born to families speaking French and German.
The French newborns cried with a rising "accent" while the German babies' cries had a falling inflection.
Writing in the journal Current Biology, they say the babies are probably trying to form a bond with their mothers by imitating them.
The findings suggest that unborn babies are influenced by the sound of the first language that penetrates the womb.
Cry melodies
It was already known that foetuses could memorise sounds from the outside world in the last three months of pregnancy and were particularly sensitive to the contour of the melody in both music and human voices. Earlier studies had shown that infants could match vowel sounds presented to them by adult speakers, but only from 12 weeks of age.
Kathleen Wermke from the University of Wurzburg, who led the research, said: "The dramatic finding of this study is that not only are human neonates capable of producing different cry melodies, but they prefer to produce those melody patterns that are
typical for the ambient language they have heard during their foetal life.
“Newborns are highly motivated to imitate their mother's behaviour in order to attract her and hence to foster bonding” Kathleen Wermke, University of Wurzburg
"Contrary to orthodox interpretations, these data support the importance of human infants' crying for seeding language development."
Dr Wermke's team recorded and analysed the cries of 60 healthy newborns when they were three to five days old.
Their analysis revealed clear differences in the shape of the infants' cry melodies that corresponded to their mother tongue.
They say the babies need only well-co-ordinated respiratory-laryngeal systems to imitate melody contours and not the vocal control that develops later.
Dr Wermke said: "Newborns are highly motivated to imitate their mother's behaviour in order to attract her and hence to foster bonding.
"Because melody contour may be the only aspect of their mother's speech that newborns are able to imitate, this might explain why we found melody contour imitation at that early age."
Volunteers required to help out at +9 Charity Shops
The +9 Charity Shops in Msida and B'Kara fund the HOPE Crisis Pregnancy Support service which over the past couple of years has supported many women, 21 babies born to date, and many others on the way.
Amongst its services, HOPE offers free information and support to pregnant women in crisis throughout the pregnancy and beyond, for as long as is necessary .
The +9 Charity shops also help fund PAIS, the Pro-Life Awareness in Schools programme , which annually equips teachers and students in local schools with pro-life learning and resources.
Gift of Life also offers help to women who may need support as a result of abortion.
The Gift of Life foundation is currently asking for help by pro-life individuals who are ready to commit to volunteering a minimum of one morning or afternoon of their time per week (shop hours) to help out in the Charity shops.
Interested persons (male or female) are invited to contact Claudia on 99297110.
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What does +9 mean?
We are generally nine months older than what we claim to be on our birthday. Use the +9 symbol to draw awareness to this. Today everyone in Malta knows what +9 means .It is now being used in other parts of globe also. It is a simple message that screams through all the semantics and lost values. Go here to view a +9 advert in Maltese, as seen on National TV in a recent campaign in Malta.
