Former Planned Parenthood Director, turned pro-life advocate, Abby Johnson will visit Australia in July. 
Right to Life Australia will be hosting Abby, who recently released a book, Unplanned - which gives a unique peek through the windows of America’s abortion giant.




Dates and locations Abby will be appearing: 
                                                         
Brisbane - June 27, 28
June 27 - Presentation at "Faith on Tap" for 18 - 35 yrs
Pineapple Hotel, 76 Main Street, Kangaroo Point.
Dinner at 6:30 pm, Abby to speak at 7:30 pm.
Cost: Meals to be purchased.
Contact Marisa: 0438 271 974 or faithontap@yahoo.com.au

June 28 - Presentation
Main Auditorium, Queensland Baptist Centre
53 Prospect Rd, Gaythorn, Queensland.
7:30 pm
$10 adults, $5 students/ concession
Contact Liz Preston 07 3892 5349
or prestons@prestonlife.com
RSVP Monday, June 27.

Hobart - June 29 
Two course dinner with tea/coffee (bar available)
Hobart Conference and Function Centre
Elizabeth Street Pier
6:30 for 7:00pm
$60 or $50 for students.
Please pay by Wednesday, June 22.
For info contact:  Anna Greener 03 6239 6397
or annagreener@netspace.net.au
Booking: Phone Doris 03 9385 0100

Melbourne - July 1,2,3.  
The Treacy Centre, Parkville. 
Dinner Friday, July 1.  7:00pm for drinks, dinner at 7:30pm.
Single $75 , students/ concession $50
Conference: July 2, 3
Family $55,  single $35,  student/ concession $25
Bookings: Contact Doris Rossi 1300 734 175 or  (03) 9385 0100
rtl@rtlaust.com

Melbourne - July 3
Theology @ the pub is a free event for 18-35 year olds (priests & religious of any age are welcome to attend).
The Pumphouse Hotel, 128 Nicholson St, Fitzroy.
Abby is in Australia for a limited time but has managed to fit us into her packed schedule. And yes, it's not the usual first Monday of the month, but the chance to have Abby join us at t@p was too good to pass up!
As usual, dinner & drinks will be from 6.30pm with the talk starting at 7.30pm.
Don't miss this chance to hear the true story of one woman's journey across the life line.

Albury - July 6
Support  Pregnancy Support Albury Wodonga Inc
 Luncheon at Rydges Hotel (Forest Room), corner of Elizabeth and Dean Streets.
12:00 noon, doors open 11:40 am.
$25 - Bookings: 02 6929 3429 or (03) 5727 0224
Email: abbyjohnsonalbury@gmail.com

Sydney - July 8, 9, 10.
Friday, July 8
Dinner / Band 
Notre Dame University (in conjunction with Notre Dame Chaplaincy) -  Broadway Sydney
7:00 for 7:30 pm
$50
Jessica Langrell 02 8204 4135 or 0438 386 482
Jessica.langrell@nd.edu.au 
Dr. John James 02 8197 9627 or 02 9894 2424
johnj@lejeunemedical.com.au

Saturday July, 9
Dinner at The Epping Club
45-47 Rawson Street, Epping
7:00 for 7:30 pm
$60 per head for 3 course meal
Contact Dr John James (see details above)

Sunday, July 10
'Theology on Tap' - for 18-35 year olds.
The Commercial Hotel - Hassell Street, Parramatta
7:00 for 7:30 pm
Contact Dr. John James or Jessica Langrell (details above).

Perth -  July 11
Pregnancy Problem House cordially invites you to celebrate 25 years of life-affirming services and to help them serve for the next 25 years.
The evening also features:
- An all-you-can-eat gourmet buffet including canapés, salads, hot and cold entrees and mains, carvery, desserts and coffee, in a stunning venue overlooking the Hillarys Marina. Cash bar available.
- "Celebrating 25 Years of Cherishing Life" from Dwight Randall, Chairman, Pregnancy Problem House
- "A Vision For the Future" from Michelle Macormic, Coordinator, Pregnancy Problem House
- Stories from Pregnancy Problem House clients
- A special address from Right to Life Australia
- Live Music
All proceeds from this event will support the free, caring and confidential services offered to WA women and babies by Pregnancy Problem House.
Tickets: $100 pp, or $950 for a table of ten - Seating is strictly limited.
We really hope you can attend, but if you have a conflict and would like to make a tax deductible donation to PPH in honour of our 25th birthday, please contact us (Direct Deposit, MC/VISA, cheques and cash gratefully received.)
To reserve tickets or to make a donation, please call 9344 8337 during business hours, or email pph.la@iinet.net.au

Adelaide - July 12, 13
July 12 - Parliamentary presentation 6:00pm - 7:30 pm.
Includes supper
Balcony Room, Parliament House.
Contact Dr. Tony Turnbull 08 8362 8709

July 13 - Relaxing over lunch with Abby.
Contact Dr. Tony Turnbull 08 8362 8709

July 13 - "Pub Theology" - Youth and young adults
6:30 - 9:30 pm
Venue to be advised.
Contact michaelmigs@gmail.com  or phone Michael 0419 816 185
pubtheologyadelaide.blogspot.com
   

Contact Right to Life Australia Inc. 
1300 734 175 or (03) 9835 0100
email: rtl@rtlaust.com. 
www.righttolife.com.au 

 

 

 

 

 

The Chilean Government has produced and aired a series of television advertisements promoting the protection of children, including those in the womb.
Life Network Australia and friends long for the day that our Australian Federal and State Governments recognise the value of all babies, as the Chilean Government does. 

  

Lifesite News (May 7, 2011) has reported that Hungary have written a new constitution which includes the protection of life from conception. Officials from Hungary are also launching an advertising campaign.
Read more/view here: http://www.lifenews.com/2011/05/06/after-new-constitution-hungary-launches-pro-life-ad-campaign/

The Death of Planned Parenthood?

Written by Bill Muehlenberg
Reproduced with permission.

Given that Planned Parenthood is one of the greatest promoters of death around the globe, it is fitting that we may be witnessing the death of this nefarious organisation. If not its death, we are certainly seeing its long-overdue meltdown because of widespread adverse reaction to it.

Just this week the US House of Representatives voted to scrap funding for PP.  House members approved the amendment by Congressman Mike Pence by a vote of 240-185. The debate now moves to the US Senate. It has been a horror month or two for the organisation, and this is just icing on the cake for pro-life forces.

PP in the US has been caught red-handed engaging in all sorts of horrific activities of late, including trying to cover up sex trafficking, offering abortion to minors, engaging in life-threatening botched abortions, breaking various laws, and seeking to discredit whistleblowers.

Things didn’t help PP very much when young pop sensation Justin Bieber said this week that he was pro-life. In an interview for Rolling Stone he said, “I really don’t believe in abortion. It’s like killing a baby?” And a new national survey found that 53 per cent of American voters consider abortion morally wrong most of the time, while just 32 per cent say it is morally acceptable most of the time. Another 15 per cent of Americans are undecided.

No wonder PP CEO Cecile Richards has called it “the worst attack – ever.” While she may call it an attack, many others would describe it as an attempt to get some truth and light into this deceptive and dark organisation, to expose the many shameful activities which regularly take place there.

Then there was the recent defection of a PP leader who spilled the beans on her former employer. I have written up Abby Johnson’s important story elsewhere: http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2011/02/04/a-review-of-unplanned-by-abby-johnson/

But the real question that needs to be asked is why wasn’t the heat turned up on PP years ago? It has been around since 1916, and has been pushing appalling philosophies, policies and practices ever since. We have known for decades what a horrific outfit this is, yet few have spoken out against it.

Several important books exposing PP had been written a few decades ago. Back in 1988 George Grant wrote a very important expose of the movement, Grand Illusions: The Legacy of Planned Parenthood (Adroit Press). A revised edition came out in 1992.

This thoroughly researched and documented volume really lifted the lid on the ugly world of PP. This is how he begins his description of the group: “Planned Parenthood is the world’s oldest, largest, and best-organized provider of abortion and birth control services.” No wonder it is so often referred to as ‘Planned Barrenhood’.

He continues, “it has expanded dramatically into a multi-billion dollar international conglomerate with programs and activities in one hundred thirty nations on every continent. In the United States alone, it employs more than twenty thousand staff personnel and volunteers in over eight hundred clinics, nearly two hundred affiliates, and more than fifty chapters in every major metropolitan area, coast to coast.”

Another lengthy and important critique of PP came in 1991 with Blessed are the Barren: The Social Policy of Planned Parenthood by Robert Marshall and Charles Donovan (Ignatius). Their volume also thoroughly documented the insidious agenda of this radical social engineering organisation.

Anyone reading these two books (each one running to 400 pages) would not only become a mini-authority on PP, but would see why concerned citizens have long sought to expose the diabolical workings of this group. It has been one of the most destructive and dangerous groups to operate freely for the past century.

Margaret Sanger

One cannot really understand the horrific agenda of PP without knowing something about its founding. Unfortunately most people know nothing about this, and PP is careful not to let the public know too much about its actual beginning. But we all need to know about PP’s founder, Margaret Sanger.

This is not the place to provide a detailed look at Sanger. Suffice it to say that she was a radical eugenicist, pro-abortionist, racist, socialist, atheist, and coercive utopian. She proudly champed promiscuity and ‘free love’; sex education for the youngest of children; radical feminism; forced sterilisation for those she considered to be less than human; and segregation of inferior classes and races.

But letting her speak in her own words may be the best way to demonstrate her malevolent ideology. Her own writings and speeches are mind-boggling, and they show just what a monstrous worldview she held to. This explains why PP has been such a force for evil in the world. Consider just a few select quotes:

“The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it.”

“Birth control: to create a race of thoroughbreds.”

“Through sex, mankind may attain the great spiritual illumination which will transform the world, which will light up the only path to an earthly paradise.”

“We who advocate Birth Control … lay all our emphasis upon stopping not only the reproduction of the unfit but upon stopping all reproduction when there is not economic means of providing proper care for those who are born in health. The eugenist also believes that a woman should bear as many healthy children as possible as a duty to the state. We hold that the world is already over-populated. Eugenists imply or insist that a woman’s first duty is to the state; we contend that her duty to herself is her first duty to the state.”

“We prefer the policy of immediate sterilization, of making sure that parenthood is absolutely prohibited to the feeble-minded.”

“In the early history of the race, so-called ‘natural law’ reigned undisturbed. Under its pitiless and unsympathetic iron rule, only the strongest, most courageous could live and become progenitors of the race. The weak died early or were killed. Today, however, civilization has brought sympathy, pity, tenderness and other lofty and worthy sentiments, which interfere with the law of natural selection. We are now in a state where our charities, our compensation acts, our pensions, hospitals, and even our drainage and sanitary equipment all tend to keep alive the sickly and the weak, who are allowed to propagate and in turn produce a race of degenerates.”

“[Woman's] instincts are fundamentally creative, not destructive. But her sex-bondage has made the dumb instrument of the monster she detests. For centuries she has populated the earth in ignorance and without restraint, in vast numbers and with staggering rapidity. She has become not the mother of a nobler race, but a mere breeding machine grinding out a humanity which fills insane asylums, almshouses and sweat shops, and provides cannon fodder that tyrants may rise to power on the sacrifice of her offspring.”

Just as horrendous are these quotes from other writers she allowed to be published in her Birth Control Review:

“The propagation of the unfit must be suppressed, and the accumulation of the debris which encumbers society must be prevented. Science has relieved us of famines and epidemics; science could rid us of the multiplication of degenerate types doomed to lives of wretchedness and incapacity. By what means? Malthus no doubt could show us the way.” -Henry De Variguy

“Godspeed the day when the unwilling mother, with her weak, puny body, her sad, anaemic unlovely face, and her dependent whine, will be no more. In that day, we shall see a race of American thoroughbreds, if not the superman.” -Anna E. Blount, M.D.

“The good preacher ‘thanks God that Susannah Wesley [mother of John Wesley] was not the kind of woman’ who refuses to do her full duty in the line of babies. He wishes this country ‘had a million mothers like Susannah Wesley.’ It has. There are probably several million just as thoughtless and improvident as she was. The country is full of foolish women who continually bring into the world babies … I might point out to Dr. Cadman that most of Susannah’s babies were of no use. Only John and Charles amounted to a hill of beans. The rest were nonentities, like all the Washington brood except George.” -Charles Hiram Chapman

“The plain and simple truth is that they [children] are born needlessly. There are still far too many births for our civilization to look after adequately; we are still unfit to be trusted with a rising birth rate. Our civilization at present has neither the courage to kill them outright quickly, cleanly and painlessly, nor the heart and courage and ability to give them what they need.” -H.G. Wells

Given these quotes, it is not at all surprising that Sanger was closely associated with the Nazi doctors and the eugenicists which Hitler employed to enact his Final Solution. She fully endorsed their use of euthanasia, abortion, sterilisation and infanticide.

And it is her organisation that American taxpayers have been subsidizing for decades. The sooner this miserable organisation is put out of action the better. We should all have learned to reject eugenics from the disastrous attempt to establish the Third Reich – but we seem to be such slow learners.

 

Many in the pro life community in Australia will recall the news in 2009 of the ‘defection’ of Planned Parenthood Director, Abby Johnson in the US. Her clinic in Bryan, Texas was the site of one of the first 40 Days for Life prayer campaigns, where participants had prayed for Abby through 5 campaigns.

On 2 November 2009, LifeSiteNews reported that Johnson, who had been affiliated with the Planned Parenthood facility for eight years, and worked as its director for two had began to feel uncomfortable with Planned Parenthood's business philosophy. The organization, suffering from the economic downturn, had told her to try to bring more abortions in the door. "The money wasn't in family planning, the money wasn't in prevention, the money was in abortion and so I had a problem with that," said Johnson.

Immediately after leaving the abortion industry and switching to the pro life position, Planned Parenthood reacted with legal action by filing for a temporary restraining order, seeking to prevent Johnson from disclosing confidential information, reported LSN.  "We regret being forced to turn to the courts to protect the safety and confidentiality of our clients and staff; however, in this instance it is absolutely necessary," said Planned Parenthood in a statement.

The huge lawsuit that followed has failed and Abby’s book ‘Unplanned’ was released this week following a webcast that attracted over 20,000 participants. Chapter 1 is available on the web for download.

Abby joined the pro life effort in the US after witnessing an ultrasound-guided abortion on a 13 week gestational age baby. She describes what she witnessed in her book:

I couldn’t shake an inner disquiet that was quickly mounting to horror as I watched the screen. The next movement was the sudden jerk of a tiny foot as the baby started  kicking, as if it were trying to move away from the probing invader. As the cannula pressed its side, the baby began struggling to turn and twist away. It seemed clear to me that it could feel the cannula, and it did not like what it was feeling.

… it hit me like a lightning bolt: …What was in this woman’s womb just a moment ago was alive. It wasn’t just tissue, just cells. It was a human baby. And it was fighting for its life! A battle it lost in the blink of an eye. What I have told people for years, what I’ve believed and taught and defended, is a lie.

Abby’s book has already made Amazon.com’s bestseller books list and will rock the abortion industry as the ugly underbelly is exposed by this courageous young woman.

The book is available through Amazon and Ignatious Press.
A podcast with Abby Johnson here: http://cherishlife.org.au/ 

Access to abortion is the greatest symbol of women's freedom and autonomy!  Or is it?? 

Anyone who has counselled women before (and or after) abortion or who live with the aftermath, knows that.... abortion hurts women (and their families and society).

But what about the 20 million women-to-be whose most basic freedom - freedom to exist - is brutally taken away every year? 

Melissa Ohden is the voice of those whose lives are cut short.

In 1977, Melissa Ohden's mother underwent an abortion attempt during her fifth month of pregnancy.  Mercifully, the abortion failed, and Melissa was born alive.  After being adopted, she found out (during her teen years) the story of her birth and experienced first hand the incredible emotional pain that abortion can inflict.  Now, after years of personal grief and questioning, she is telling the world her story - a story of survival, triumph and hope.

Come and hear Melissa speak in a city near you! Find comfort in her journey of healing and be inspired to take a stand against the greatest violence against women, babies and families in our society today - an event not to be missed!

Life Network Australia will be coordinating Melissa's tour of Australia in September. Her tour details will be on our website as soon as they are confirmed.

If you are interested in being involved in the planning/organisation of her visit to your city, please email sonja.couroupis@bigpond.com.