Speaking with the Women’s Rights Foundation, Marion recounted how she was on a bus from Valletta heading towards her house when her water broke. 

“I had no clue what had happened at the time. Like was I soaking wet?” she questioned. “It’s not something that you think it’s possible to happen when you’re 17 weeks pregnant.”

Her parents took Marion straight to the hospital for medical attention, and that’s when they realised that there was something seriously wrong.

“Within a few hours, I had a fever and the infection started. They were telling me that there was zero chance of the baby making it.”

“They were also telling me that there was absolutely nothing that they could do to help me. They were not even able to give me the proper antibiotics to help the infection because the stronger the antibiotic the more it’s going to harm the baby.” 

“But the baby was already in harm.”

“I can’t imagine a mother risking her life and not being there for her child that she already has, for a child that will never, ever survive.”

“There were so many emotions – I was grieving the loss of the child, but I was also terrified.”

“The hardest part was thinking I wouldn’t be there for my daughter,” she said with tears in her eyes, explaining that this was a 100% wanted pregnancy.

“I asked the doctors straight up, what would you do if it were your own daughter? And he told me that his hands were tied by the law.”

“The infection was very clear, I had discharge coming out of me. There was no pregnancy left, other than a child that was slowly dying.”

After six days, the insurance company stepped in and stressed that Marion needed to be airlifted out of Malta through an air ambulance in order to save her life.

“It was an evacuation rescue. They came into the room, closed the door, asked everybody to not touch me, took the IVs out, and started their own treatment.”

“There couldn’t be a Maltese person able to help me because they could be held liable. It’s a law,” she said. 

“These are the reasons why it’s so important to change this law,” she stressed.

“They took me on the stretcher, they had an ambulance right outside and they took me straight to the airport. We went right through it and straight on the runway.”

Marion was then taken to a private hospital in Paris, where she found doctors waiting for her to give her the medical treatment she needed.

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