A group of one hundred lecturers from Malta University explained, in a document, their objections to the proposed amendments to the current in vitro fertilisation law, because they “seriously impair the protection of embryos”. Such changes respond “to the needs of future parents, to the almost total detriment of the protection of human embryos”, whose status is “reduced to little more than a commodity”, as also revealed by the language used, which replaces the word “embryo” with “fertilised egg”. The academicians criticise the fact that the law lets up to five eggs be fertilised to increase the chance of success: this results in the “production of too many embryos”, the selection and freezing of the discarded embryos, which may be adopted by other couples but most of which will be “orphaned” and cryo-stored, without the law mentioning anything about it. They challenge the introduction of the option to have “anonymous gamete donors”, which would pave the way to a “deliberate creation of a new type of orphans”, children who “will never have any relationship with their biological parents”. Lastly, they challenge the option that the law, despite condemning “commercial surrogacy as a criminal offence”, does not rule out “altruistic surrogacy”. The document also criticises the fact that no results of the public consultation that took place in 2015 have been revealed.