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maltatoday | SUNDAY • 27 MARCH 2022 OPINION 3 LETTERS & EDITORIAL maltatoday | SUNDAY • 18 JUNE 2023 Mikiel Galea Letters & Clarifications A most dreadful practice PROF. Isabel Stabile's impassioned appeal to the Prime Minister to de- criminalize abortion and the extensive coverage of the subject in last Sunday's issue should be a matter of regret for all law-abiding and God-fearing citizens. Respectfully, I consider her plea as technically sanctimonious crowing because she persistently and wilfully chooses to ignore the truth - the dic- tionary always gives me the meaning of abortion as abnormality, aberration, deviation, miscreation, monstrosity etc. In the same issue there was an arti- cle about the cruelty and illegality of cropping dogs' ears which carries a penalty of €2,000 up to €65,000, and three-years' imprisonment (considered excessive by me). But judging by those standards, it is blatantly obvious that the eradication of a nascent human being is a much more serious crime which would hypothet- ically raise the fines and penalties to astronomical proportions. Don't get me wrong. I am not advocating any such meas- ures, but the gravity of the offence should be borne in mind and sanc- tioned. Padre Pio's definition of abortion as the suicide of the human race is much more convincing and compelling than Stabile's women's need to protect them- selves by killing future babies at the same time. A gross contradiction, if ever there was one! John Azzopardi Zabbar A tree for Bormla I have been visiting Malta for many, many years. Bormla has especially grown very close to my heart. This beautiful place has developed very carefully every year, a little more beautiful without having lost the soul of the citizens. For sure, the friendli- ness of the Maltese living here is cer- tainly well-known all-over Malta. In Germany, I am a Green member of the city council of my hometown Rheda-Wiedenbrück. Climate change and the fight against it is a very big concern for us. One goal of our mayor is to plant another 10,000 trees there. Therefore, it was only natural for me to plant a small olive tree here in Bormla, in the hope that this finds many imitators amongst other tour- ists. Imagine what would happen to Malta, when only 1 out of 100 tourists or one out of 1,000 tourists just plant one little tree. Klaus Zerbin Rheda-Wiedenbrück Will Msida students ever return home? THE Msida primary school remains one big construction site. At the current rate of development, I cannot see how this school will be ready to accept students in the new scholastic year as promised by the education minister when interviewed on XtraSajf last year. My grandchildren should start at- tending this school but at this rate they will finish their primary years and never return to what should be their natural home. I just hope that work on the school speeds up so that students from Msida will once again get their learning in the hometown where they live. J. Aquilina Msida