The Case Against Abortion

President and co-founder of Life Network Australia, Sonja Couroupis, has written about sex selection abortions in Australia and her piece has been published by Opinion Online. Please leave a comment on the Online Opinion website (see link below) and support Senator Madigan's courageous efforts.

"The reaction to Senator John Madigan preparing a bill, to remove federal funding for sex selection abortions has been telling. The old tricks of the abortion lobby have been dragged out to avoid much needed consideration of the implementation of abortion in Australia – these tricks include undermining men who do not agree with their position (playing the exhausted misogyny card), assuming they represent all women and avoiding the issue at hand – in this case, sex selection.
 
What many don't know is that internationally, millions and millions of baby girls are, in fact, being killed in the womb and after birth…just for being girls!"

 Read more (and add your comment) here:

Used with permission.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to the vilest evil of our time!

Dear Abortion, forty years ago today you were swept under the rug and allowed to become legal. Women ignored or didn't understand the holocaust of damage you do, and called it "choice". The "right to privacy" was deemed more important and valuable than a human life.

Today, you're all grown up. You're forty years old now, and you are a lean, mean, killing machine. You have perfected your art - you kill not only bodies, but souls. And not once have you felt remorse.

You defy the psychiatrists, legal eagles, feminists, people who "say" they care about women. You even managed to bamboozle alot of people in the Church. You are smooth and slick. You take no prisoners and you call it "freedom". You're better than Jim Jones, baby girl. You're what they call a "femme fatale", seducing and beautifully hypnotizing millions - until you destroy them. And the only one left standing is you, as you laugh over their scarred bodies and souls.

You've got women hypnotized from one end of this country to the other, women who are so orgiastically enamored with their "rights" that they lost sight of their souls and their bodies - and their sisters' bodies and souls, too.

You seduced a president who has sold his soul to the temptation of your power. You sold a cheap bill of goods, you hawked a lie. But someone came around the back of the building and caught you hiding and laughing up your sleeve at the utter gullibility of even the most select and intelligent.

We caught you. We see you. And we know you. We have seen your fangs bared, dripping the blood of little girls. We have seen you howl at the moon, claws flexed, as you seek new flesh. My, but you know how to clean up pretty; I'll give you that. You walk alongside women as they angrily clench their fists and demand the legal right to destroy their own bodies and souls and kill the child inside them. You fooled them. You once fooled me, too.

But there is something you didn't count on, baby girl - I woke up. And there are many of us who, bearing the scars you laughingly inflicted, are now wiser than before. And we stand before you and tell you, quietly and to your face, that we will destroy you. Did you know that education is more effective than the bullying power of Roe v. Wade? Did you know that, for all your bullying-in-the-playground legalized fun you've had for forty years now, that your bark is actually worse than your bite? That the ground you stand on is becoming more tremulous by the day?

Feel the ground beneath you trembling? That is the rumble from the millions of broken souls you thought were gone. That is the vibration of bodies and souls that you thought you conquered. That is the ground shifting, the sound and sensation of a battalion of truth coming towards you.

Because it took us a little while, but we finally figured you out. We learned a few things about you - - that girls and women have souls and they don't like it very much when their souls are destroyed by you. And each one of us, are walking proof today of your spirit of the black widow. We are telling people about your homicidal seduction. What's the thing a bully fears the most? A secret becoming known.

We whisper in your ear, "We KNOW your secret. You have nothing left."

We are telling your secret to the world and there is nothing you can do to stop us. The world, the very order of humanity, cries out for justice. And we are here to see to it that it will be done. You and I, personally, have a destiny. I will stand with head held high and I will not shrink from seeing your destruction. I will not laugh. I will shed tears over the souls and bodies you have destroyed, over the minds you have cast a hypnotic veil over.

I will see you destroyed. The greatest enemy of a lie is the truth. I AM the truth of abortion. I AM your greatest enemy.

So enjoy your birthday today. You and I have a date with destiny, and there is no dark cave in this world or any other world, you can escape to. I am coming for you.

- Mary Anne, your survivor

 By Debbie Garratt - CEO of Real Choices Australia.

Reproductive Choice Australia's latest campaign is one which brings a sickening feeling of dismay to the many people who have contacted us about it.  Reproductive Choice propose to carry out a flashmob in Melbourne's CBD, wearing t-shirts with the slogan: Abortion, a Fact of Life .

For those who don't know what a flash mob is, it is a group of people who carry out a pre organised form of entertainment in a public space, most often to the surprise and delight of unassuming passers-by. Flash mobs usually consist of some dancing and/or singing or some kind of drama. They can be lots of fun.

Leslie Cannold, a prominent pro-abortion advocate leads the dancing lesson in a YouTube video, where they are working to recruit participants for the flash mob.

Leslie Cannold stated in her book, The Abortion Myth, that she had very real concerns that the experiences of women who sought and had abortions were not being heard. Yet it seems that when it comes to the evidence that abortion leaves up to 30% of women suffering serious and prolonged mental health problems, and that many women are having abortions in the absence of genuine and supported alternatives, neither Leslie, nor her organisation are interested in hearing the voices of real women. Dancing in the streets to celebrate abortion is their answer to these women. Celebrating what for so many women is a tragedy and an unwanted solution to a difficult issue. Shouting down the testimonies of women harmed by abortion at events where they desperately try to have a voice is the answer they give to the women whose rights they espouse to value.

This event serves to minimise, if not dismiss the very real trauma so many women experience whenfaced with an abortion decision. It makes a mockery of the circumstances so many women find themselves struggling with if they are unexpectedly pregnant and are desperate for support. It shows how little pro abortion advocates really understand what it is they are fighting for, surgical and medical solutions to social problems that make it challenging for women to fully participate in activities of their choosing, whether that be in the home, the workforce or in education.

Instead of lobbying for greater access to childcare, more flexible work practices, less violence toward women, more concern about the potential harm of abortion, they choose to dance in the streets to celebrate the pain their advocacy helps to inflict on women, men and children.

Reproduced with permission from Endeavour Forum.

A complaint to the United Nations Conference on the Status of Women (UNCSW) has been made by The Coalition to End Violence Against Pregnant Women, July 31, 2012.
 
This complaint was signed by Endeavour Forum Inc., and acknowledgement of receipt was received from UNCSW
 
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An opinion piece by the president of Life Network Australia has been published on line.

The article talks about how the 40 Days for life campaign is highlighting the need for greater support services to be offered to women facing unplanned pregnancies and how the 40 Days for Life campaign is offering hope and saving thousands of lives internationally.

It can be read here

 

Media Statement by Debbie Garratt, Real Choices Australia

Used with permission.

‘Call for free abortions as needy women priced out of procedure’ says the headline, with women’s health advocates stating that, ‘Growing numbers of women in desperate financial straits cannot afford abortions.’ (Sydney Morning Herald, August 6)

With up to 75% of abortion seeking women stating financial constraints as a reason they are unable to continue their pregnancies, one has to wonder what these ‘women’s advocates’ are doing to ensure that no woman has an unwanted abortion when financial constraints are a primary factor.

The cases put forward in this article of the woman with 5 children and a domestic violence issue, a homeless mother and a mother with children in foster care seem on the surface to be desperate cases for abortion. However, these cases only demonstrate how miserably we are failing to support women and children out of their dire circumstances by offering them surgical solutions to their social problems. This kind of problem provides abortions for the pregnant, homeless women, instead of housing and financial support.

The suggestion by Catherine White that the continuation of unplanned pregnancies places a burden on child protection and welfare services is without evidence, and is a not too cleverly disguised opinion that women from lower socioeconomic circumstances should not be offered the support they need to bring their children into the world. Her statement that women adversely suffer mental health issues if they give birth following an unplanned pregnancy is also without substantiation. In fact, the opposite is true with international evidence demonstrating that up to 30% of women experience serious and prolonged mental health problems after abortion, creating an unnecessary burden on our economy, not to mention the lives of women themselves and their families.

The fact is that about half of all pregnancies are unintended, and about half of these lead to abortion, with more than 95% of those being undertaken for psychosocial reasons. These reasons are often complex and often related to a woman’s economic situation, including worry about employment, education, housing and withdrawal of support from partners and family. Until we have a system where a woman’s economic and social needs can be adequately addressed and remedied, we cannot continue to espouse abortion as an actual choice.

When a woman is forced to choose between her education and having her baby, her employment and having her baby or her boyfriend/partner/husband and having her baby this is not choice, it is coercion. When services fail to demonstrate their willingness to meet a woman’s social and economic needs so that she feels able to choose to continue her pregnancy, they are contributing to this coercion.

Instead of more discussion about increasing access to abortion, particularly medical abortion with its much higher risk of adverse effects, we need to be discussing the real reasons why women have abortions and offering real solutions. Only then can we say that real choice exists.

Debbie Garratt

Executive Director

02 6059 5550

The pro abortion rhetoric "It is a woman's choice" ignores the plight of so many baby girls who do not reach womanhood because they are aborted, killed or abandoned - The United Nations estimates some 200,000,000 girls are missing due to sex selection as a result of family planning in China and India. 
It's a Girl Documentary here

Footage and information such as this is a big problem for groups such as EMILY's List who pride themselves on being pro "choice" and who claim to promote equal opportunity for women!

Life Site News has written an article describing the mass culling of females in Asia. The article states that "Some 163 million women are missing from Asia. That is the entire female population of the United States."
"The culprit is sex selective abortion according to Mara Hvistendahl’s fascinating book Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men.  Hvistendahl is not pro-life nor is she Catholic, but that is what, I believe, makes this book courageous.  Of course in typical pro-choice fashion, she refuses to address the facts of when human life begins, but she does tackle the sacred cows at the root of the devastation that now faces Asia: widespread abortion and the population control movement of the West."
Read more here: http://www.lifenews.com/2011/08/03/legacy-of-population-control-163-million-missing-women/