Pictured above: Rachel Makenzie

Life, which is unique for each individual right from the start, will be celebrated at Life Fest 2019, being organised by Life Networks Foundation Malta (LNFM) on Sunday 1 December from 2 p.m. in Valletta.

Apart from the annual march for life, there will be lots of fun for all the family, including face painting, a puppet show and a bouncy castle. 

The main speaker this year is former abortionist Dr Anthony Levatino, who played a leading role in the film Unplanned, which was premiered in Malta on 30 October. Dr Levatino holds both medical degrees and law degrees.

He believed he was helping women when he performed nearly 1,200 first and second trimester abortions. But then he suddenly had a transformative heart moment that left him disgusted.

Originally pro-abortion in the 1970s and early 1980s, the former abortionist and his wife were having a difficult time conceiving a child. As a result, they began to look into adopting. But he soon had a hard time reconciling the idea of attempting to have a baby while aborting others for a living.

Dr Levatino and his wife adopted a girl and then found out she was pregnant with their son. “We were fortunately able to adopt a child after a considerable amount of effort,” he said.

Still, Dr Levatino continued to perform abortions until tragedy hit his home in 1984. “Our daughter, Heather, was two months shy of her sixth birthday when she was struck and killed by a car in front of our home,” he continued. The loss impacted him to his core, shifting his perspective of abortions for ever. The next time he performed an abortion, he realised the difference.

“I finished that abortion… for the first time in my career after all those years and all those abortions, I looked… and I didn’t see her wonderful right to choose and I didn’t see what a great physician I was helping her with her problem,” he said. “And I didn’t even see the $800 cash I just made in 15 minutes. All I could see was somebody’s son or daughter.”

After a few months, he stopped performing second-trimester abortions, then a little later, he stopped performing all abortions. “Once you figure out that killing a baby the size of your hand for money is wrong, then it doesn’t take you too long to figure out that it doesn’t matter how big – it’s still her son or daughter,” he said. “That was the beginning of the end.”

The meeting place for the march for life is in Jean De Le Vallette Square. From there it will go down to the Republic Street up to St John Street, pass in front of St John’s Co-Cathedral and turn up Merchant Street, finishing in Jean De Le Vallette Square in front of Parliament.

Dr Levatino will be joined by Rachel Makenzie, who had two abortions herself when she was in her teenage years and early twenties, at Life Network Foundation Malta’s Christmas Fundraising Dinner to be held at the Ballroom of the Corinthia Palace Hotel, Attard, on Thursday 28 November 2019 at 7.30 p.m.

Ms Makenzie speaks on the effect that these abortions at such a young age had on her life, how she lived before, during and after the abortions. She finally found peace after seeking help and acknowledging what had happened. She speaks of the hidden post abortion stress, anger and hidden grief which the abortion industry conveniently ignores as it peddles abortion as ‘health care’.

Ms Makenzie found post abortion healing and is now very active in the pro-life movement. She set up and is currently running Rachel’s Vineyard Midlands as a Facilitator. Rachel’s Vineyard supports women and men affected by the trauma of abortion. It originates from America, where it was set up by Theresa Burke.

A committee member of Birmingham Catholic Charismatic Conference, Ms Makenzie was a keynote speaker at the 2018 March for life in the UK. She is a public speaker, sharing her testimony of hope at the New Dawn, Youth 2000, and Jesus Youth & throughout the Uk and in Dublin, Ireland.  She was the only post abortive pro-life speaker on the BBC documentary: ‘Abortion the trial’ and spoke on Victoria Derbyshire against ‘buffer zones’.

For more information or to book for the dinner visit the Life Network Foundation Malta, which offers a host of services, via www.LifeLineMalta.eu or call 79047040/79442468/21442468.