Abortion in Australia

Please find following a list of amendments that were rejected when the Victorian Brumby Government legalised abortion up until birth. While there were some 60 amendments, this is a shorter list of those which reveal the cruel intention of those that voted to make abortion legal on demand.

 The following list is from the Life Voteflyer (page 2)

In October 2008, the Victorian parliament voted to make abortions legal,
right up to the day of birth, no counselling required.

Yet:
98% of Australians believe that women should be advised
of the health risks of abortion*
99% want support-counselling for women*
87% want the number of abortions reduced*

Despite this, the Victorian Parliament voted down amendments to help women
in crisis. They voted:
*Against providing support-counselling for women. [VicHansard 3536-3550]
*Against providing information on the health risks of abortion. [VicHansard 3629-3631]
*Against the right of healthcare workers not to participate in abortion or refer for abortion. [VicHansard 4245-4264]
*Against banning late-term and partial-birth abortion. [VicHansard 3498-3506]
*Against mandatory reporting of suspected child/teenage victims of sexual abuse when a suspected abuser takes them to an abortion clinic. [VicHansard 3492-3498]
*Against notifying the custodial parent of a minor seeking an abortion [VicHansard 3480-3485]
*Against requiring abortionists to provide an anaesthetic to the unborn child being aborted. [VicHansard 3625-3639]
*Against protecting the life of a child born alive after an abortion.
[VicHansard 3620-3629]
*Against providing legal protection for an unborn child seriously injured during an assault on the mother. [VicHansard 3474-3480]

* Giving Women a Choice: Australia Speaks on Abortion, Southern Cross Bioethics Institute, 2005. 

Related footage:

Babies born alive and left to die: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3WHP7Q5dp8

Change the law: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p4LVSmKx5M 

What do the public know? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yOkPX9c_964&feature=relmfu

LifeSiteNews have reported that "While votes are still being counted, the number of political candidates who are members of the pro-abortion organization Emily’s List in the Queensland parliament appears to have been reduced from as many as 13 to as few as one".

Luke McCormack, spokesperson for the Queensland Branch of the Australian Family Association, partly attributed Labor’s losses to the presence of Emily’s List members in parliament. “One of the reasons Labor is on the nose is because the party no longer honours traditional labour values,” he said. “And one of the reasons for this is the successful infiltration of the feminist network EMILY’s list, which promotes radical feminist policies that financially manipulate families, and also promotes abortion law reform that allows terminations for any or no reason right up until full-term.”

Teresa Martin, the state president of Cherish Life Queensland, urged Queenslanders not to be complacent. “We urge you to make contact with your new Member on a regular basis and keep the pressure on them to be held accountable in pro-life matters,” she said.

Graham Preston, the Queensland Co-ordinator of Right to Life Australia, said he now expects the status-quo to be maintained by the new Liberal National Party government. “I don’t know how much people voted out Emily’s Listers because they were pro-abortion or how much it was just a general swing against Labor, and to be honest it was probably more the latter,” he said. “We would like to think there would be good things under the new government, but to be honest we don’t think they’ll make any moves to make abortion more difficult in Queensland, but we don’t think they’ll make any moves to make it easier either.”

Read more here

 "A DOCTOR who faces disciplinary action for posting online do-it-yourself abortion instructions has failed to put forth moral and social arguments to support why she did so, a tribunal has found.

The Medical Board of Australia is pursuing professional misconduct action against Brisbane doctor Adrienne Freeman after she posted advice online explaining how women could have abortions without medical supervision." Read more here.