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3 LETTERS & EDITORIAL maltatoday | SUNDAY • 6 JUNE 2021 Mikiel Galea Letters & Clarifications Losing one's humanity I refer to the opinion by Prof. Isabel Stabile, "Criminalising abortion..." of 30 June, 2021. No one would accuse Prof. Stabile of a lack of verve. She has clearly bucketfuls to dish out to the papers. I feel that the stuff meted out is more sugar-coated than the two medical abortion pills women take. However, nice words have never and can never hide heinous crimes. Her rationale of the chain of tech- nical and medical treatment available is broken when she feels it incum- bent upon her to provide all possible help when a decision to end a preg- nancy is taken. That is the grave faux-pas which should never be taken – because no one has the right to eliminate a blooming life. After that, the pro- choice group takes over and over- looks the compelling duty to protect life at all stages. We should never support the legis- lation of abortion on moral grounds as well. The depraved treatment of our children will go down in history as our greatest atrocity if we do. We have it from Padre Pio, who is no fool or ordinary person. "The day people lose their horror for abortion will be the most horrible day for humanity. Abortion is not only a homicide but also a suicide." Which conception am I to support? Easy! John Azzopardi Zabbar Kept off the green list I cannot understand as to why the United Kingdom insists on keeping Malta out of its green list. As a regular visitor to Malta – I was previously a timeshare owner be- fore securing my own property long ago before Brexit – I too am frustrat- ed at the UK government's insistence on keeping Malta off the so-called green list. Indeed, no other countries were added to the list. Portugal, where a good deal of old friends of mine have retired to, hap- pened to be on the green list three weeks ago, and now it has gone down to amber. I read in your paper of the frustra- tion of Maltese tourism bodies for the apparent lack of scientific and logical reason for such a decision. Perhaps the British press should read up on what has happened in Malta with its excellent management of COVID-19 and its wide vaccine coverage and superb control of the spread with timely lockdown meas- ures even in 2021! Surely the island meets all the criteria laid down by the British government. Friends of mine back in Malta em- ployed within and dependent on the tourism industry's fortunes know the value of the British market. I salute their resilience in the face of this disappointing decision, and I hope to be back in Malta to spend my sum- mer there. One final note: the Maltese ho- tels association has asked whether the Boris Johnson administration is taking political decisions that under- mine the decades-old free movement of trade and services. If that is so, it would be the kind of old-style pro- tectionism that does not favours to the spirit of the British relations we have enjoyed with the Maltese all these years. I do hope the UK gov- ernment understands the please of the Maltese tourism industry. I for one, who calls Malta my adopted home, will support the Maltese hos- pitality industry. Jim Cavendish, Slough, Bucks