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:

Last May (2011), Life Network Australia reported the harm done by the RU486 abortion pill in South Australia, where some 400 women were hospitalised in just one year.

At the time, Dr. Mulligan said that "Australian doctors are on a learning curve" in the use of RU486.  Life Network Australia argued that they were playing with the lives of women and babies.

This article was sent to Nicola Roxon, former Federal Minister for Health and to Peter Dutton, Shadow Minister for Health. However our warnings were ignored and now a woman has died from what The Australian call a "bedroom abortion".

The Australian reports that the Therapeutic Goods Administration has "issued a notice to doctors and clinics to review their follow up care". Life Network Australia continues to argue that abortion does not qualify as "therapeutic" and should be taken out of their hands.

Life Network Australia again calls on Nicola Roxon to suspend access to the RU486 abortion pill - or women (not to mention the babies) will continue to die.

This tragic death follows that of another mother, just before Christmas - and a near fatality just weeks before that in Melbourne. For every baby it is a certain agonising death!

 "Legal, safe and rare"? ...no such thing!

Victorian Liberal MP, Bernie Finn, has not wasted any time in highlighting the problem of abortion during the first week of Parliamentary sitting (on February 9, 2012). He provided a summary of the research conducted by Dr. Priscilla Coleman - which was recently published in the highly respected British Journal of Psychiatry (August, 2011).

Mr. Finn provided alarming statistics from this study, revealing the psychological risks of abortion to women and has asked the Minister for Mental Health, Mary Wooldridge, to establish post abortion counselling services in Victoria. 

There were no interjections made and Mr Finn said "You could have heard a pin drop! "

Read his address here:

The Age have reported that "A 42-YEAR-OLD woman died days after attending a controversial abortion clinic in Croydon last week".

It goes on to say that "Authorities have confirmed that the woman was taken to the Box Hill Hospital where she died on Sunday, after earlier having ''a procedure at a private Croydon clinic''.

According to the article,  the Coroners Court of Victoria's spokesperson said that "the death of the woman, from Sunshine, would be investigated".

This is the fourth investigation involving this particular clinic in six years.

Life Network Australia has been supporting a campaign for the month of December, following the tragic abortion of 32 week old twin boys. In light of yet another tragedy, we urge you to please email and phone Premier Ted Baillieu and Health Minister David Davis, as well as your local member - to voice your objection to the current Victorian laws that allow these situations to occur.  

1. Call Premier Baillieu (            03 9651 5000      ), the Health Minister, David Davis (            03 9096 8561      ) and your local member.

2. If you have access to a fax machine, please fax at them today

 Premier Baillieu - fax no 03) 9651 5054 and  David Davis fax 03) 9096 3373

Two teenagers hit the streets of Melbourne to find out what people know (...or don't know) about the current abortion laws in Victoria. Check out their responses! 

In part one, Mary and Hayley asked the public "How far into pregnancy is it legal for a mother to abort her baby in Victoria?"

In part two  - They asked "Is parental consent for minors required by law in Victoria?"

Please phone now (and again tomorrow) to express your dissatisfaction with the current abortion laws in Victoria 
Premier Ted Baillieu               (03) 9882 4088       

Email ted.baillieu@parliament.vic.gov.au 

Victorian Health Minister David Davis            03 9096 8561      

Email david.davis@parliament.vic.gov.au   

In July 2010, 31-year-old Filipina woman, Rechilda Moll-Sequitin, settled a lawsuit against her employer who allegedly forced her to abort her unborn child. The employer's company denied threatening her with dismissal if she failed to abort, but settled out of court after the court was told that Ms Moll-Sequitin had recorded the threats. (Check out the news report for details)

Pregnant Australian women have more to contend with than coercion in the workplace. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women may be treated just as badly in Australian abortion clinics.

Women’s stories reveal that clinics may not obtain proper consent (“I was really sobbing quite hysterically”), are often uninformed or misinformed (“…it was just a sack of cells”), and are not adequately warned of the physical and psychological risks arising from the abortion procedure. (See Ali’s story)

Up until recently, the courts have been the primary mechanism through which abortion has been made available to Australian women. Now, women coerced or harmed by the abortion industry have the opportunity to use the courts for compensation for their mistreatment.

Abortion Legal Support are a network of independent lawyers in Australia and New Zealand who believe women have a right to access the legal system with their abortion harm claims.

According to their website, ALS’ services include claims against clinics including:
• misleading and deceptive advertising by abortion clinics
• failure to inform of possible depression or other side effects of abortion
• providing little or no information as to development of the unborn child
• not offering an opportunity to view ultrasound imaging
• a counselling process which made a woman feel pressured to have an abortion
• a counselling process which failed to give a woman adequate time to work out their own wishes
• failing to identify that a boyfriend/ partner/ parent or some other person was pressuring a woman to abort.

Australian women deserve freedom from coercion, misinformation and lack of information. Perhaps it is time that those who have been mistreated send this message to the abortion industry – via the courts if necessary.