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3 LETTERS & EDITORIAL maltatoday | SUNDAY • 25 OCTOBER 2020 Mikiel Galea Letters & Clarifications Abortion misnomer IT'S a good thing that this is the only paper that carried the words "informed conscience" in my defence of the un- born child because I agree with Prof. Isabel Stabile (18 October, Letters) that moral values are based on conscience, the voice of God – and not religion. However two wrongs do not make a right. Contraception is also and always mortally sinful because it perverts the generative act and defeats the primary purpose of marriage. Any "not open to life" acts are intrinsically evil and unnatural. In this, my last letter on the subject, I can visualize clearly that this decep- tively humane society's title Family Planning Advisory Service is a colossal misnomer if abortion is acknowledged and propagated. I prefer the pious rational Christian solution. "Behold I have graven thee in my hands" (Is:49-16). Why should this divine privilege be scratched? And then to confirm His love for us, God continues "Can a woman forget her infant, so as not to have pity on the son of her womb? And if she should forget, yet will I not forget thee." Is it possible that Prof. Stabile has never heard of voluntary, Church and State organisations which take care of abandoned and orphaned babies and fostering later on in their life? In the local scene, the Ursuline Sis- ters readily come to mind. The num- ber of infants who found refuge at the Ursuline crèche in Sliema and brought up in filial love can be counted in hun- dreds. And universally? St Mother There- sa's nuns. John Azzopardi Zabbar Vulnerable persons ignored in Budget ON 29 March 2020, Legal Notice 111 of 2020, ordered that "vulnera- ble persons", including "persons of sixty-five (65) years of age or over" "are to remain segregated in their residence". As a result, these vulnerable per- sons could not use their private cars. This means that such vulnerable persons could not take full benefit of the annual circulation licence fee (tax) which they were paying. The government offered refunds of part of the electricity bill and part of the rent to businesses. But it offered no refunds to vulnerable persons on their annual circulation licence tax! Is this how the government meas- ures its social consideration for vul- nerable persons? In foreign countries, motor insur- ance companies have offered credit or refunds to their policyholders for a number of months. Why is it that motor insurance companies in Malta did not offer such credit or refund to local policy- holders? One of the largest motor insurance companies in the United States of America, State Farm Insurance has offered about 5% credit on premiums for the period of March 20 through May 31. Other reductions were offered after May, resulting in about 4.2 billion US dollars in savings for motor insur- ance customers. Alfred A. Farrugia Mosta