Thursday, 21. May 2009, 23:44:52
society, abortion
Another small step on the relentless fall into barbarity:
Swedish health authorities have ruled that gender-based abortion is not illegal according to current law and can not therefore be stopped, according to a report by Sveriges Television. The Local reported in February that a woman from Eskilstuna in southern Sweden had twice had abortions after finding out the gender of the child
theophiles.org - Sweden rules 'gender-based' abortion legal
Friday, 23. January 2009, 22:50:01
abortion
The new President of the United States has shown his true colours only three days into his four year term... which makes you wonder what things will be like there in 2012.
From the ABC:
Obama lifts restrictions on abortion funding
US President Barack Obama has lifted restrictions on US government funding for groups that provide abortion services or counselling abroad, reversing a policy of his Republican predecessor George W Bush, a spokesman said.
The Democratic president's decision was a victory for advocates of abortion rights on an issue that in recent years has become a tit-for-tat policy change each time the White House shifts from one party to the other.
When the ban was in place, no US government funding for family planning services could be given to clinics or groups that offer abortion services or counselling in other countries even if the funds for those activities come from non-US. government sources.
Mr Obama signed an executive order lifting the restrictions on Friday (local time), a White House spokesman said.
Thursday, 13. July 2006, 05:06:40
abortion, CDP, society
CDP Response to items aobut the Sydney abortionist who has been charged with manslaughter.
13th July 2006
The Exploitation Of Women & Big Abortion Bucks
The Rev Fred Nile MLC has stated that we shouldn't be surprised by the "greed" of abortionist Dr Suman Sood. "Dr Sood is just one abortionist that has been caught out. The NSW abortion industry as a whole is enjoying another bumper year as they continue to make large financial gains by exploiting vulnerable women in an unregulated industry. Not only does the abortion industry get a tax-payer funded rebate for each abortion conducted, but many are also then charging these women an extra fee, arbitrarily determined and paid in untraceable cash.
The sad irony is that this industry seeks to legitimise their existence by citing the need to relieve the mental stress and anguish suffered by these women, yet in fact they are contributing to it by their morally reprehensible actions", stated Rev Nile.
The Rev Fred Nile has been calling on the Government to conduct a full public review of the industry and to ensure the protection and support for women experiencing an unwanted pregnancy.
As far back as March 1st 2005, Reverend Fred Nile MLC raised the issue with the NSW Government. "Is it a fact that private abortion clinics in New South Wales charge clients $200 in cash over and above the Medicare rebate? Is it a fact that in Tweed heads an abortion clinic charges women with no Medicare card anything up to $600 cash extra for an abortion procedure? Is it a fact that at a Sydney abortion clinic a receptionist also serves as an untrained counsellor for women seeking an abortion? What has the Government done to protect vulnerable women from such exploitative behaviour? Will the Government launch a full review of the private abortion industry in New South Wales, including the evasion of State and Federal taxes?
Morris Iemma, then Minister for Health, responded on April 6th 2005 by stating that "the NSW Department of Health does not regulate the market of private facilities performing terminations of pregnancy." He then deferred all responsibility to the Federal Government.
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Wednesday, 29. March 2006, 23:30:47
abortion, society
This article in today's Sydney Morning Herald describes the pressure to have abortions.
JULIA ANDERSON'S voice caught with emotion as she sought to explain the impact of having a baby with Down syndrome.
Twice her husband, John, the former deputy prime minister, took over her role at the launch of a book denouncing the routine practice of terminating abnormal foetuses.
The Andersons didn't consider abortion when they learned their baby would suffer Down syndrome. But pressures on his family triggered by baby Andrew's severe internal abnormalities led Mr Anderson, then a cabinet minister, to raise with the Prime Minister the possibility of leaving politics in 1998.
"Who was I to place a greater value on my life than on his?" Mr Anderson said of Andrew, who lived for six months.
The Andersons spoke at the launch yesterday of Defiant Birth - Women Who Resist Medical Eugenics, a book by Melinda Tankard Reist containing the stories of 19 women who have fought the abortion of foetuses who prenatal testing has found are likely to be abnormal.
Mrs Anderson began by saying that she had not realised when she had Andrew that she was having "a defiant birth" and that 85 to 90 per cent of foetuses thought to have Down syndrome were terminated in Australia.
"I found out afterwards that we were going against the norm."
As she began to explain the importance of Andrew's life, emotion halted her words and her husband took over.
Andrew's importance, said Mr Anderson, was not necessarily the impact he had on the family but of his being able to live his life, even though he had to struggle with the pain of numerous operations needed to correct severe problems with his internal organs.
"It was not our life to take away or cut short … every person is valuable and not just a commodity to be used or rejected according to our whims," Mr Anderson said.
"One day it is Down syndrome. What if it is potential kleptomaniacs next?"
Ms Tankard Reist, an anti-abortion campaigner and former staffer of Tasmanian independent former senator Brian Harradine, said the forces to rid the world of individuals on the grounds of disabilities and imperfections were already widespread.
Strangers asked parents of disabled children why they had not had a prenatal test, patients were pressured against going ahead with births, with one doctor reportedly telling an expectant mother that her child "will only
be a pet". She said the women in her book had confronted the impersonal "quality control" of current practice.
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