The Junior Minister responsible for legislating a law that sends women to prison over abortions, the Parliamentary Secretary for Reforms and Equality Rebecca Buttigieg said that women shouldn’t go to prison over abortion. She was commenting about a case in which a woman was handed a 22-month suspended jail sentence for having an abortion at home with abortion pills she bought online.
The reason the Minister supported legislation she personally disagreed with is that she has exploited progressive causes to advance her own career. She was also one of the Ministers who showed no hesitation in telling Jean-Paul Sofia’s mother that a public inquiry into her son’s death was unnecessary. Thanks to her and other newcomers in Labour politics, Labour’s youth are no longer seen as contrarians to the party’s conservative leadership, but rather as mere puppets of that leadership.
Rebecca Buttigieg was also elected with the gender-elective mechanism: a scheme which we were promised would enhance women’s rights. We did indeed get more women in parliament who speak more regularly on women’s rights thanks to the gender-elective mechanism – the problem is that these women have used these issues only to further their careers and have provided no tangible and effective result so far. Being useful and productive are no longer values cherished by Labour’s youth, who have grown accustomed to living under their own government rather than having to fight for it.
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