100,000 dead babies
Archbishop Barry Hickey will launch the Western Australian Remembrance Walk and Rally for Life, scheduled to begin at 7 pm on Tuesday 25 May at St Mary’s Cathedral in Victoria Square.
This year will mark 12 years of abortion with state approval in Western Australia. Sadly by May 2010 over 100,000 children will have been killed by abortion in that State since 1998.
Rather than just holding a traditional Rally for Life at Parliament House, organisers, The Coalition for the Defence of Human Life, hope to make this year’s commemoration a pilgrimage of prayer, repentance and resolution.
Beginning from St Mary’s Cathedral, thay will march along St Georges Terrace. The marchers will stop for a prayer of repentance outside Government House, where on 26 May 1998 the WA Governor gave the Royal Assent to the abortion bill, ignoring the 10,000 signatures gathered on a petition against the bill over the preceding weekend.
Further down the Terrace they will pause again outside the Premier’s office to remind Colin Barnett, who voted for the abortion bill in 1998, and his government, that the first duty of the executive government of Western Australia is to ensure that all its innocent citizens – particularly the most vulnerable - are fully protected by the law.
The evening march will finish at Parliament House where the participants expect to be joined by many fine MPs from all parties who share a commitment to the defence of human life.
Please mark this date on your calendar now and invite your friends and family to join you. Children are very welcome at this event. Electric candles will be provided for all participants as well as “precious feet” badges as a memento of this occasion.
Reproduced from the April 2010 newsletter of the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life.
Comments
LNA Response:
Thanks for your thoughts Hayden...just to address a couple of your points:
1) Pleased that you acknowledge the "foetus" is a life.
2) "Babies dont have a conscience": There is actually scientific evidence to the contrary, that babies in the womb are very sensitive to the moods of their mothers and not long after birth can sense the mood of those in their environment (was on the Today Show this week)..
If you apply this (unfounded) logic to born babies - Does that mean that they do not deserve protection from abusers (who are adults...and who supposedly do have a conscience??). It seems the only conscience in question is that of the Mothers - babies are in the innocent victims in this situation, why do you question their consciences??
3) You will see on our website that we argue for greater support for women facing unplanned pregnancy - so she does "have the means to provide for her child" - abortion is not the answer, support and encouragement is!
4)" What about in the case of rape? " This is always the trump card for pro abortion advocates...
Some women actually describe abortion as "the second rape" and consider it worse than the first (http://www.feministsforlife.org/FFL_topics/victory/2ndrape.htm) Did you know that Lane Beachley is the product of rape? Imagine this world without her!! There are groups of women who were conceived in rape that are opposing abortion, who brought healing to their mothers, not torment as the pro aborts would have you believe. Try telling them that their life should have been aborted!
Furthermore, this attitude is coercion - our society pressures women in this situation by assuming that is their only solution or the right thing for them to do.
5) "Women have more rights than foetuses" - Foetuses are a stage of human development, some of whom are little women... Germaine Greer (feminist) described abortion as "The last non-choice in a long lline of non choices... "Like an animal caught in that that gnaws its leg off"... As Feminists for Life say "Women Deserve better than abortion!" - not to mention the life of the person growing inside her!
In the past 13 years these 108,000 babies have been killed with the approval of the State. Many of their mothers, fathers, grandparents, brothers and sisters carry the hurts and wounds of this massive destruction of human life. You are warmly invited to attend
The Walk and Rally for Life which will commence at Theatre Gardens, Bagot Rd, Subiaco (opposite Loretto St) at 7 pm on Tuesday 24th May. Participants will walk past King Edward Memorial Hospital. The gathering will then walk along Hay St to Parliament House.
At Parliament House prolife members of parliament will address the rally. The rally is expected to conclude shortly after 9.00 pm. Electric candles will be distributed to all participants. The theme of this year’s Walk and Rally for Life will be "Abortion
Stops a Beating Heart". A collection will be taken up to defray the costs of the rally and to assist the work of the Coalition for the Defence of Human Life.