The title of this piece is a concept alien to Malta, from the very top all the way to the bottom. “I have told you three times. The law will be signed,” barked President George Vella at Times of Malta journalist Jacob Borg who had the temerity to ask him whether he would sign the new IVF law. Andrew Azzopardi too tried to get a straight answer from the president. Who will sign the law, asked Azzopardi. “Let’s not go into that argument,” Vella insisted. The new IVF law allows for genetic testing before a fertilised egg is implanted in a woman’s womb. That is something that is a moral dilemma for people who argue that choosing between fertilised eggs is not very different from eugenics. They see preimplantation genetic testing as devaluing human life, throwing away, even freezing, ‘undesirables’ and ‘rejects’. These people believe that, if we shall now be screening for certain traits, this devalues the very life of those who have already been born with those traits, rubbishing the ‘solidarity’ we so fantastically delude ourselves to be one of our main characteristics. The president is obviously against preimplantation genetic testing. The difference between the president and all...