Luke Murphy - Thoughts arising from the Scottish COVID Enquiry re: Healthcare

‘’Care’’: From Latin Caritas - via multiple paths and a word meaning Grief in a Germanic language, often translated as Love, and with regard to people, to will the good of others in practical ways, to value them.

Were we to walk a pier and at the end find a distressed Casandra locked in a glass box signaling for help, as someone is drowning in the water below, we may interject: “The sign here clearly states, swim at your own risk, so is it worth that artificial act of saving a human life?” A weak swimmer, says not at the risk of my life. That women locked in the box can’t help, and she signals to a floatation device placed there for just such an emergency. Perhaps the drowning is deliberate, and questions should therefore be asked by outsiders first. Is it a child drowning? Should we care about age or health? What if the glass entrapped were signaling not to intervene? What if the saved person were to die a week later? Would the lifesaving act have been a waste of effort?

NEWS FROM QUEENSLAND

It might have been thought that, when in 2018 the Palaszczuk Labor Government in Queensland legalised abortion up to birth, the pro-abortionists would have achieved everything they wanted. But no, they don’t ever seem to be satisfied.

In March this year legislation – apparently the first of its kind in Australia - was passed which allows nurses and mid-wives to dispense the abortion pill.

Now, in the recently released Queensland Budget, $41.8 million has been committed to support the implementation of a new Termination of Pregnancy Action Plan 2032 over the next five years. Or, as Health Minister Sharon Fentiman put it, “improving access to termination care”. Yes, “termination care”! Talk about an oxymoron.

A private member's bill was introduced into Federal parliament on 12 February 2024  by Ms  Katherine Chaney MP and seconded by: Dr Monique Ryan MP (both Independents). The bill is called  the [Criminal Code Amendment (Telecommunications Offences for Suicide Related Material - Exception for Lawful Voluntary Assisted Dying) Bill 2024].  The bill aims to circumvent the present ban on using telehealth by amending the Federal Criminal Code Act 1995.

These photos of the annual Melbourne March for Life in 1981 (courtesy of John Dynan) illustrate how successful it was being held for many years in Melbourne by The Right to Life Australia Inc. (The March for the Babies is a more recent event held by Bernard Finn).