Events and Opportunities

International Call for the Rights and Dignity of the Human Person and the Family
502,879 Total Signatures as at 9 October 2009 

Help C-FAM gather 1,000,000 signatures.
     
In the months leading up to the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR), the foundational international human rights document, C-FAM discovered that international abortion advocate and provider, Marie Stopes International, was planning on presenting a petition to the UN community calling for Global Safe Abortion and asking states to interpret the UDHR to include abortion as a human right.

C-FAM and allied organizations recognized the need to counter the Marie Stopes International initiative and launched the UN Petition for the Unborn Child and the Family in September 2008 with the aim of presenting the UN with the signatures on December 10, 2008.

The C-FAM campaign started with the hope of garnering 50,000 signatures. By December 10, we had gathered over 400,000.  C-FAM presented the petition to ambassadors from various states and to the UN community in a press conference at UN headquarters on December 10. 

Heartened by the strong response from supporters and the positive feedback from the UN ambassadors that we met with, C-FAM decided to continue the campaign with the goal of presenting 1,000,000 signatures at the next session of the General Assembly.

Sign now!

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We’ve received terrific feedback from the abortion advertisement in The Weekend Australian. A number of pro-life politicians have also contacted us to say how much they appreciated it.

To make the most of this opportunity to influence politicians’ thinking on this issue, please (if you haven’t already) print this advertisement and ‘snail mail’ it to your local member of State and Federal Parliaments.

We believe a hard copy of this advertisement sent to MP’s will have maximum impact. This is especially important for Queensland and New South Wales where there is enormous pressure building to decriminalise abortion right up until birth, as tragically occurred in Victoria last year.

Some points you might like to make in a cover letter are:

That you oppose abortion 
That you would like your Member to work to find ways to support women with unplanned pregnancies, rather than offering abortion as the first choice 
That abortion’s frequency (100,000 per year Australia-wide) be reduced and that there be an immediate ban on late term and partial birth abortion 
That every abortion takes the life of an unborn baby
Contact details for State MPs are available from these websites.

TASMANIA - NEW SOUTH WALES - ACT - NORTHERN TERRITORY - SOUTH AUSTRALIA - WESTERN AUSTRALIA - QUEENSLAND - VICTORIA

Federal Members can be contacted here.
 

Thanks for taking action at this strategic time. If you would like to contribute financially to our work in shifting political and public opinion on abortion, you can donate securely online here.
 

God bless,

Jim Wallace AM
Managing Director
Australian Christian Lobby

 

Come and find out how you can save a life! Learn about abortion - the silent tragedy of our time, and what you can do to oppose the practice. Women and their children desperately need you to advocate for them in their time of need.

Download the flyer below. 

LNA and Y4L in Albury Sept 09 (317 KB)

Get involved in the fight for life!

Youth for Life are inviting young people to three full days of pro life lectures, street activism and entertainment. You’ll be undertaking street sessions and making banners. Participants will also learn the facts about abortion, pro life arguments and skills for effective political lobbying. The camp finishes with participation in the ‘March for the Babies’ on the Victorian Parliament House.

The Camp runs from Thursday October 6, until Saturday October 10, 2009 and will be held at the Gunyah Retreat Centre near Bendigo.

Contact Prue Neiberding on 0411 563 790 to book your place, or download a brochure.

If you live in the Shepparton area, come and hear Victorian MP, Bernie Finn speaking on the topic 'Abortion in Victoria - avenues for pro life action'. He will also be promoting the March for the Babies planned for October in Melbourne. The meeting will be held on Tuesday September 29 at the Eastbank Centre in Shepparton and starts at 7.30pm. The Eastbank centre is located at 70 Welsford St, Shepparton.

A March to protest and mourn the passing of the Victorian abortion legislation will be held in Melbourne on October 10, 2009. Meet at the Treasury Gardens, dressed in baby blue or pink! More details to come ...

Pro-life meeting featuring founder and president of Youth For Life, Prue Neiberding. To be held at the Echuca Community Church, 13 Rose Street, Echuca on Friday August 21, 7:30 PM.

Come and hear Prue Neiberding speak of her experiences in pro-life activism and present a slide-show of some of Y4L's recent pro-life activities. Life Network Australia will also present an overview of their mission to inform, inspire and empower Australians to undertake grassroots opposition to abortion. This is a meeting not to be missed by local pro-life supporters and is of special relevance to church youth groups. All welcome.

 

Life Network Australia invites you to come and find out about abortion in Australia, the passionate community opposing it, and how you can be a part of a new life-affirming culture.

Guest speaker -
Prue Neiberding, Youth for Life.

Saturday August 22, 2009
at the Finley Presbyterian Church.
A bring and share tea starts at 6:30 PM,
followed by our guest speaker.
Activities for 12 year olds and under provided in separate room during the presentation by Prue.

A presentation NOT TO BE MISSED!

Contact: Joe and Sue Weir 03 5882 6313.

This opportunity has been provided by the Australian Christian Lobby:

Australia’s drug regulator has decided to widely increase the availability of the abortion drug RU486 and also relax previous rules for its use.

The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) this week authorised abortion provider Marie Stopes International to use RU486 as an alternative to surgical abortion in its nine centres in Victoria, NSW, WA, the ACT and Queensland. Please click here for more details.

According to a report in Tuesday’s The Australian, Marie Stopes International also convinced the TGA to broaden the rules under which they can use the drug at their clinics, with use of the drug previously restricted to women with existing medical conditions or a risk of serious pregnancy complications.

To do this Marie Stopes had to persuade the TGA that pregnancy was “life-threatening” and they claimed that it is safer for women to terminate a pregnancy than to give birth.

ACL has publicly attacked the TGA’s decision which appears to have been based on ludicrous reasoning.

“Marie Stopes International seems to have resorted to scientifically and morally questionable arguments as a means of overcoming regulatory hurdles to get what they wanted – the ability to offer RU486 to anyone who chooses it provided they are less than nine weeks pregnant,” ACL Managing Director Jim Wallace said in a media release issued on Tuesday.

“Child birth is extremely safe in Australia, with a miniscule mortality rate. To countenance an argument that women have to have access to RU486 to save them from the dangers of childbirth is absurd. At a time when there is wide public concern about Australia’s high abortion rate, is it really acceptable that the administering body should prove itself so gullible and ineffective as a gatekeeper?” Please click here to read the media release.

The TGA has made a decision with wide social, moral and ethical dimensions, without any sort of accountability to the public or democratic processes. This follows on from the Federal Parliament’s strongly contested decision in early 2006 to remove the Health Minister’s power to veto applications to use RU486.

ACL believes that we need to bring back Ministerial responsibility into decisions about the use of abortion agents like RU486, and not allow abortion clinics to dictate the agenda.

If you would like to take further action on this issue and make your concerns known about the decision to widen the use of RU486 please email the Federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon at Nicola.Roxon.MP@aph.gov.au and the TGA at feedback@tga.gov.au.