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WWW.MALTATODAY.COM.MT WEDNESDAY EDITION €1.00 Newspaper post PAGE 9 • Editorial WEDNESDAY • 25 APRIL 2018 • ISSUE 584 • PUBLISHED EVERY WEDNESDAY AND SUNDAY Godfrey Farrugia accuses Children's Commissioner of 'dehumanising children' Can a mass meeting exorcise Panamagate? ANALYSIS Terms and Conditions are available from www.bov.com or contact 2131 2020 Issued by Bank of Valletta p.l.c., 58, Triq San Żakkarija, Il-Belt Valletta VLT 1130 Bank of Valletta p.l.c. is a public limited company regulated by the MFSA and is licensed to carry out the business of banking and investment services in terms of the Banking Act (Cap. 371 of the Laws of Malta) and the Investment Services Act (Cap.370. of the Laws of Malta). pay with your BOV Contactless Cards Simple | Swift | Secure BOV CARDS PAGES 6 - 7 PAGE 2 TIA RELJIC THE amendments which began to be dis- cussed in Parliament yesterday on the IVF law are pro-life, Deputy Prime Minister and Health Minister Chris Fearne insisted, as em- bryo freezing saves more embryos than the system which currently exists. Fearne said that we need to do away with "the idea that we will be killing embryos or not protecting them." "The law as it is today actually does damage to embryos, while our amendments are a pro- life measure." The majority of embryos which come about from frozen eggs are lost, whereas the rate of success is almost double for embryo freezing, Fearne said. "We don't want embryos to go to waste be- cause they came from frozen eggs, but we want them to develop and to become babies." MINISTER INSISTS EMBRYO FREEZING SAVES MORE EMBRYOS THAN CURRENT SYSTEM PAGE 3 PARLIAMENT DEBATES EMBRYO PROTECTION ACT AMENDMENTS TIA RELJIC THE Children's Commissioner is reinter- preting an ideological bias in order to fit the Prime Minister's agenda, thereby dehuman- ising the dignity of the unborn child, Demo- cratic Party MP Godfrey Farrugia said. Furthermore, the MP accused Pauline Miceli of not fulfilling her legal obligations of promoting special care and protection for children before and after birth. "I am afraid her line of thought is wrong on embryo freezing, and in my opinion she is not fulfilling her legal obligations," Farrugia said. The Commissioner for Children Act of 2003 expressly states that it is the function of the Commissioner to promote special care and protection, including adequate le- gal protection, for children both before and after birth. Farrugia, who is fully in favour of IVF, was reacting to the Commissioner's statement released on Monday, in which she expressed support for the amendments to the law. PAGE 2 Pilatus Bank chairman's lawyers tell US court bank is 'in process of winding down'