Salvu Mallia reacts as pro-life group voices concern over PN silence

Updated 9.30am with Salvu Mallia's reaction
Nationalist Party candidate Salvu Mallia said he was in favour of education not abotion as a pro-life group unleashed an attack over comments made in an interview published yesterday.
"Whoever told you I'm in favour of abortion? I'm in favour of education," Mr Mallia wrote in a Facebook post today. 
The pro-life group Gift of Life criticised the Nationalist Party leadership for having made no attempt so far to reassure the public that it upholds pro-life values after Mr Mallia told The Sunday Times of Malta that euthanasia and abortion should be personal choices.

The group called Mr Mallia's comments 'disturbing'.
"Since this was reported, the party leadership has so far made no attempt to reassure the people of Malta that it continues to solidly uphold pro-life values without exceptions. It therefore remains unclear to people whether the party has radically changed its position and that it now agrees with the intentional killing of the unborn, the old or infirm," the pressure group said. 
"We remind all political parties that is not acceptable and if anything, it is completely inconsistent, for one to claim to be personally against...