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15 amazing facts about the 15-week-gestation fetus
"This year, the Supreme Court agreed to hear the case Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, which would allow Mississippi to limit abortions at 15 weeks. Medical advancements have long surpass...
Read MoreIRISH EUTHANASIA BILL MEETS DEAD END
The Irish Parliament’s Oireachtas Committee on Justice in considering Mr Gino Kenny TD’s ‘Dying with Dignity’ Bill 2020’ confirmed in July 2021 they will not progress the bill to a final vote at this ...
Read MoreEuthanasia NO! in Queensland
Read our submission to Health and Environment Committee, Queensland enquiry into Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021. VOLUNTARY ASSISTED DYING BILL 2021 (PDF) ...
Read MoreGREENWICH EUTHANASIA PUSH AS NSW IN TORTUOUS COVID CRISIS
Despite the torturous crisis situation with NSW in lockdown MP Alex Greenwich has seized the opportunity to further his agenda on euthanasia. The so called ‘consultation’ draft of his bill&...
Read MoreThe Human Rights (Children Born Alive Protection) Bill 2021
George Christensen MP has proposed a bill in the House of Representatives called "The Human Rights (Children Born Alive Protection) Bill 2021". The bill is expected to be tabled in early August 2021....
Read MoreCanada's Slippery Slope coming to a state near you
The Second Annual Report on Medical Assistance in Dying released by the Canadian government is alarming. 4,120 Canadians euthanised because they had cancer but with no discussion with an oncolog...
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Leaders say no to euthanasia
Many different groups of Australians are reminding governments of their responsibility to uphold the sanctity of life. Responding to the complexities at critical and terminal stages of life is difficu...
Read MoreEuthanasia "South Australian style"
The passage of the euthanasia bill (named Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2020) in June 2021 through the South Australian Parliament’s House of Assembly is no cause for rejoicing. Over ...
Read MoreHealth Professionals say NO to euthanasia in SA
In an open letter to South Australians (The Advertiser 5/6/21) a group of 850 Medical Doctors and Health Professionals in Australia [Health Professionals Say NO!] stated "All South Australia...
Read MoreTHE SLOPE JUST GOT MORE SLIPPERY ON ASSISTED SUICIDE
Queensland’s Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2021 is a further step down the dangerous path of government assisted suicide. We need to be clear – what we are dealing with is government supported and gov...
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I won't intentionally help my patients to end their lives
For family members watching a loved one die, the experience can be agonising. However, with appropriate involvement of palliative care, the preparation and education of family members about the normal...
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'Abortion to Birth Bill' passes in South Australia
In spite of a very vigorous campaign to oppose the "Termination of Pregnancies Bill 2020" passed the South Australian Legislative Council (Upper House) on Tuesday 2 March 2021 and will become la...
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THE VALUE OF HUMAN LIFE
Walking hand in hand with my son Jesse on his first day of school, my heart filled with joy and pride at how far he had come. Jesse has overcome many difficult obstacles in his young life. After being...
Read MoreQueensland Premier stands condemned on assisted suicide
The Queensland government is introducing a euthanasia bill into the Parliament at end of May 2021. Mrs Tighe, President of Right to Life Australia, said, "Ms Palaszczuk's latest embracing of th...
Read MoreDan Andrews Proven Wrong
Euthanasia deaths in Victoria under the Euthanasia Act passed in 2017 are 10 times greater than Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews predicted! The latest Victorian Euthanasia Figures (Janua...
Read MoreTASMANIANS - Contact your MPs here - Stop Gaffney Patient Killing Bill!
TASMANIANS - Act Now to stop Patient Killing! Tasmanian MP Mike Gaffney (IND) MLC introduced his euthanasia bill [End Of Life Choices (Voluntary Assisted Dying) Bill 2020] into the Legislative...
Read MoreTasmanian MPs must heed warnings of Victorian euthanasia toll
The introduction of a euthanasia bill by MP Mike Gaffney MLC in Tasmania rings alarm bells. Will Tasmania heed the danger as shown by Victoria's euthanasia toll - already surpassing govern...
Read MoreStop Vaccines Derived from Aborted Babies
The Right to Life Australia Inc is very concerned to learn that a vaccine against the COVID-19 virus is derived from an aborted child. Let us not forget that the life of this child is of the same valu...
Read MoreDementia Patients are not Dying Patients
The dementia nursing home patients being turned away from our overstressed public hospitals like the Royal Melbourne are NOT dying patients....
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Your Action is needed in three states!
Queenslanders: Premier Palaszczuk is delaying consideration of euthanasia laws until next year giving us opportunity to express our opposition to euthanasia before the state election this year (3...
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Regarding "The Age' Newspaper
Victorians should be aware of the huge harm being done by “the Age’ newspaper in relation to its enthusiastic endorsement of legalised physician assisted suicide in Victoria. In the voluntary as...
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A tragic story enacted in Canberra Hospital
Canberra Hospital can turn off life support for 20-week pregnant woman despite wishes of baby's father, court rules Extract of Article - ABC news by Elizabeth Byrne 28 May 2020 The Canberra Hospital...
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The Unborn Child as a patient
By Professor Sir William Liley (1929–83): NZ Perinatal Physiologist US National Committee for a Human Life Amendment Inc. WASHINGTON D.C. 20036 (in 1974). The US Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Cons...
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Unborn Kiwis In Danger Of Extinction - Ardern's Abortion Bill Passes
While New Zealanders are distracted by the alarm created by the COVID-19 virus, Jacinda Ardern's heinous Abortion Legislation Bill passed the NZ Parliament on 18 March 2020 with a vote of 68:51. This...
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Battle over embryos leads to calls for personhood status
Experts say embryos should not be treated as property A dispute over a Sydney couple’s frozen embryos highlighted the fact that they are regarded as ‘property’ under the law. Experts and pro-life ad...
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Queensland and "Voluntary Assisted Dying"
On March 31, 2020 the Queensland Parliamentary Committee which carried out an Inquiry into “Voluntary Assisted Dying” tabled their Findings and Recommendations. During the year prior to the tabling o...
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Euthanasia: Assisted dying figures alarming, Labor MP Marlene Kairouz says
Hon Marlene Kairouz, Minister for Trade, in the Victorian government who opposed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 and is not afraid to speak out about it! Victorian Labor frontbencher Mar...
Read MoreWhat lies beneath the pro-abortion rage?
There is something building within the pro-abortion movement. As the lies and powers of the industry are questioned, the protests increase in fervour. The very thought that they will no longer be allo...
Read MoreABORTION A SYMPTOM OF DEEPER PROBLEM
There is an ever-growing movement of women who have been conditioned to believe that abortion is a glorious right to be celebrated and protected at all costs. The message is distributed almost univer...
Read MoreVictoria's Euthanasia Figures not Surprising
“The release of Victoria’s euthanasia figures by the Voluntary Assisted Dying (VAD) Review Board following six months of its operation are not surprising,” said Margaret Tighe, President of Right to L...
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The latest of Graham Preston, Australia's Leading Prolifer
Dear Friends, Just a brief note to let you know the outcome of the post-Christmas vigil. As expected, it was not long into the first morning before the police arrived – three cars with six police! A s...
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National March for Life in Wellington New Zealand Dec 2019
Right to Life NZ commends the 2,400 men, women and children who peacefully and joyfully marched to Parliament in Wellington yesterday, Saturday 7th December 2019, to express their support for a cultur...
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Respect life to the very end: Bishop Harris
Cath News – a Service of the Australian Catholic Bishops conference. Townsville Bishop Tim Harris advocated strongly against euthanasia in his weekend homily, saying it was important to have a co...
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Western Australia Crosses the Threshold
Allowing Doctors to Kill Patients - Or Help Patients To Kill Themselves. Last December 2019 the Western Australian (WA) parliament voted for a euthanasia bill which legalises state sanctioned extra ju...
Read MorePatient Killing now legal in Western Australia
Western Australia's darkest day for the sick and vulnerable was in December 2019 with the passage of the Western Australian assisted suicide bill (24:11) through the Legislative Council and then passe...
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The 2019 Year in Review - Pregnancy Counselling Australia
Volunteer counsellors at PCA continue to devote themselves to the women and men of Australia who are facing an unplanned pregnancy or are suffering following an abortion.There are so many voices in th...
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South Australian Prolifers at the Coalface
Alan Tyson - 40 days for Life South Australia In December 2018 Greens MLC Ms Tammy Franks (Upper House) introduced an Abortion Law Reform Bill to decriminalise abortion and provide the most unregulat...
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'Aboriginal people do not need a new avenue to death'
Western Australia is considering a piece of legislation that may be the most consequential set of laws passed by its 40th parliament: a bill that radically changes our understanding of life, death and...
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Hon Nick Goiran MLC - A Great Stalwart For Life!
The Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019 is currently being debated in the Legislative Council in the Parliament of Western Australia. We are immensely proud of the work of Hon. Nicolas (Nick) Goiran ML...
Read MoreSouth Australian Mothers need help - not open doors into abortuaries
We have received so many calls from mothers who have experienced a last minute reprieve from aborting their child. ...
Read MoreThe greatest human rights issue today
Abortion is the greatest human rights issue facing Australia today. I speak of the deliberate ending of life of babies in the womb – babies we know are members of the human family - as are you ...
Read MoreSTOP patient killing in Western Australia
Alarm Bells for WA! Contact your 6 Members of Legislative Council WA now! All West Australians should be rightly alarmed as the WA government debates the legislation of patient killing in the Legislat...
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Up to 10,000 people rallied to stop abortion bill in New South Wales
Written by Jane Landon. Jane is a supporter of Right to Life Australia who was very active during our Federal Election campaign in Bennelong Electorate. Picture by Aleshia Fewster. Pro-life...
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Justice Clarence Thomas rips Planned Parenthood, abortion movement as racist
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 28, 2019 (LifeSiteNews) – With the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision Tuesday morning to save one part of Indiana’s 2016 abortion law while letting another be struck down, Justice Cla...
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WA Euthanasia Recommendations even "more extreme" than Victoria's
The Government of Western Australia is looking to introduce laws more liberal than Victoria's euthanasia laws. An expert panel in its recent report recommended that patients should be eligible if they...
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NATIONAL RIGHT TO LIFE (USA) CONVENTION 2019 - Mary Collier
In July 2019 the Committee of Right to Life Australia supported me to travel to attend the USA National Right to Life Convention 2019 held in Charleston, South Carolina. There were approximately 700 d...
Read MoreMore terminally ill Victorians meet euthanasia criteria to end their lives
Excerpt from article By Matt Johnston, Herald Sun – 28 August 2019 A growing number of terminally ill Victorians have met the criteria for the state’s euthanasia scheme, and have been approved to acc...
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Why Has New Zealand's Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern Betrayed the Disability Sector?
Reproduced from Media Release 24 August 2019 - Ken Orr, Spokesperson, Right to Life New Zealand More than half of the unborn children in New Zealand with Down syndrome are killed before they are born...
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40 Babies Born Alive Following Failed Abortions Over Three Years
Reproduced from Society for the Protection of Unborn Children. London, United Kingdom 22 August 2019 SPUC has questioned the figures surrounding abortion survivors in the United Kingdom, after it has...
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Our Counsellors Continue To Stand In The Gap
NEWS FROM OUR OUTREACH SERVICE - PREGNANCY COUNSELLING AUSTRALIA Please take the enclosed flyer and place in your church, office or other venue to encourage women (and men) to utilise our life saving...
Read MoreReproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019
New South Wales Parliament debate 6/8/2019 The Hon. Mr DOMINIC PERROTTET MLA (Epping—Treasurer) (LIB) 6/8/2019 "Today we have a choice set before us that goes to the core of who we are and who we ...
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Dr Gillespie urges Nationals colleagues to consider state abortion bill carefully
Carla Mascarenhas ~ Excerpt Reproduced from Wauchope Gazette 21/8/19 Federal member for Lyne Dr David Gillespie had this to say: He believes the legislation is unnecessary because abortion was "...
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Federal MPs and the Abortion Debate in NSW
Excerpt from SBS News 22 August 2019 In recent weeks, the former Nationals party leader, Hon Barnaby Joyce MP who now sits on the backbench, has taken a leading role in the fight against the push to ...
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The NSW Abortion Debate 2019
Australia has recently been reminded of its disgraceful record on government-funded abortions with the NSW parliament engaged in a fiery debate over the total legislation of abortion until birth! &nb...
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LEGISLATIVE ALERT | URGENT ACTION REQUIRED FOR WA!
Contact your MP's asking them to vote against the WA government's euthanasia bill soon to be introduced into the WA parliament in August. (see enclosed list of Parliamentarians) This follows the pa...
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Palliative care work will endure
We won’t let the introduction of voluntary assisted dying overshadow our ongoing commitment to the sick. By Natasha Michael ,The Age 23/05/19 What matters most? Over the past week, Australians h...
Read MoreNSW abortion until birth bill must be stopped!
The second reading of the Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019 has now passed the New South Wales Legislative Council 26 to 15. Please contact your Legislative Council members urgently. Tell them...
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How Jesse’s Life Was Saved
I was 20 weeks pregnant as I walked into a women’s imaging centre with my husband and one-year-old daughter. We were excited to find out if we were having a little boy or girl. What we did find out ca...
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Voluntary euthanasia is a threshold moment for Australia, and one we should not cross
“There is probably no more important issue in contemporary bioethics or a more serious ethical decision for our parliaments than that raised by the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 being debated thi...
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The Alfred Pharmacy - Now Dealing in Death - How Sad!
Margaret Tighe, Letter to Chief Pharmacist, Alfred Health, Melbourne, May 2019 Dear Sir, I write as one who worked as a pharmacist at the Alfred hospital for several years after my return from w...
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News from the United States – Good and Bad
The abortion issue has been front page news in the US of late. The Good News has been from the following states – Ohio, Mississippi Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana – where a variety...
Read MoreWA euthanasia recommendations even more extreme than Victoria's
The Government of Western Australia is looking to introduce laws more liberal than Victoria's euthanasia laws. An expert panel in its recent report recommended that patients should be eligible i...
Read MoreHanding out the facts against Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
Right to Life Australia President Margaret Tighe said today, “I am not surprised people are protesting outside Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre when one considers that the hospital of which Melbourne is ...
Read MoreRight to Life Australia Opposes Labor Election Pledge to Expand Abortion Nationally
Right to Life Australia stands firmly opposed to Labor’s election promise to expand abortion nationally by linking hospital funding to abortion services reviewing Medicare rebates associated with abor...
Read MoreSouth Australian politicians to decide on extreme abortion law changes soon
Action alert - South Australia For our South Australian supporters, please contact your Members of the Legislative Council in South Australia urgently. Tammy Franks MLC (Greens) has introduced the S...
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Architects of Victoria's right-to-die law publish 'manual' on how to push legislation through
A Ministerial Advisory Panel reviews its success - Article by Michael Cook reproduced from Mercatornet.com Dec 4 2018 https://bit.ly/2GbhGFu One year ago, in December 2017, the Australian ...
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PETER MAC RECRUITS SUICIDE FACILITATOR
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre (in Victoria) is currently advertising for "VAD Care Navigators" calling for "Clinical Nurse Consultants Grade 6 or Grade 4 Allied Health Professionals or Grade 4 Psychol...
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On being a prolife Member of Parliament
By Dr Rachel Carling-Jenkins I had the privilege of spending four years in state parliament defending the vulnerable by standing up for the human right to life from conception to natural death. ...
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Courageous Post-Abortion NZ Women
On 9 November 2018, New Zealand’s leading newspaper “The Dominion Post” published a one page advertisement which had been placed by Family First NZ, about eight courageous New Zealand mothers – all of...
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A MODERN DAY SAINT!
Sydney mum who postponed cancer treatment to save son has passed away. Brianna Rawlings, the mother who postponed her leukaemia treatment to give birth to her son, has passed away a few days after he...
Read MoreMs Nipe Snipes against Right to Life brochures
Tara Nipe was a candidate for the Voluntary Euthanasia Party for the Eastern Metropolitan Region in the recent Victorian election. Her party’s popularity is such that it gained 0.87% of the vote in th...
Read MoreMedia Release: Victoria – the Abortion State – Now the Euthanasia State
As Victorians approach the polls on 24 November 2018, Right to Life Australia calls for a vote against the Andrews Labor government purely and simply on the basis of their appalling track record on th...
Read MoreHow your Victorian MP voted on voluntary assisted dying
The passage of the Victorian Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 was an appalling moment in the state's history. The following article outlines how your MP voted on the bill....
Read MoreLabor - the abortion party
Media Release “We hear much of the self-acclaimed achievements of the Andrews’ Labor government for its roads, tunnels, level crossings, overhead rail and the nightly promises on TV of much largesse ...
Read MoreMarch for the Babies in Melbourne on Saturday 13 October 2018
We wish to advise you of the upcoming March for the Babies, held each year in Melbourne to remember the 2008 Abortion Law Reform Act being tragically passed into law in October 2008. Join a peaceful ...
Read MoreHelp us to fund our campaigns against the onslaught
We understand it's not easy to receive so many requests from various non-profit groups and work out which to donate to....
Read MoreStop Senator Leyonjhelm's Bill today!
Dear Supporters Debate will commence on Senator Leyonjhelm's Restoring Territory Rights (Assisted Suicide Legislation) Bill 2015 this week. Please telephone your Senators ...
Read MoreHow Seattle Cancer Centre euthanasia works
The New England Journal of Medicine published a review of how the assisted suicide programme operates at the Seattle Cancer Care Alliance hospital, Washington State. The article titled "Im...
Read MoreEuthanasia in Vic based on Seattle Hospital model
The Victorian Health Minister Jill Hennessy MLA announced during a visit to the USA in late March 2018 that Victoria will partner with Seattle Cancer Care Alliance to implement Victoria’s assiste...
Read MoreGovernment attack on Freedom of Speech
All Right to Lifers and indeed other members of not for profit groups who campaign on a range of issues with Parliamentary representatives should be concerned about the Coalition Government’s planned ...
Read MoreAct now to defend the right to life in Queensland & ACT
There are 2 important inquiries affecting pro-life issues currently accepting submissions we wanted to let you know about. Note that while the inquiries are conducted by state parliaments, anyone is a...
Read MoreNew South Wales Legislative Council narrowly rejects assisted suicide
On Thursday 16 November the New South Wales Legislative Council narrowly rejected the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017 by 20 votes to 19. The vote took place at almost midnight after a long debate t...
Read MoreVic MLCs Votes Euthanasia 2017
The final vote on the third reading in the Victorian Parliament was 22:18. For your MLCs vote.......
Read MoreQuestions and answers on the Victorian “Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017”
Questions and answers on the Victorian “Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2017” To be debated in the Victorian Legislative Council (late 2017) Dr Peter McCullagh MD (Melb), D Phil (Oxon), MRCP (Lond) * ...
Read MoreVictorian suicide bill - Labor's shame
The President of Right to Life Australia, Margaret Tighe, said today was a tragic day for the people of Victoria and indeed for the people of Australia....
Read MoreGovernment doctor-prescribed suicide bill introduced
Margaret Tighe, President of Right To Life Australia said today: “The Victorian Government is today introducing into the Parliament legislation which will give doctors the power to deliberately end t...
Read MoreD grade video needs Fact Check
"The depiction of the death of Victorian Mr Sims using a 12 year old DVD movie is an amateur attempt at influencing young people to lobby MPs for assisted suicide," said Mary Collier CEO Right t...
Read MoreMinisterial Advisory Panel Voluntary Assisted Dying
Here's the guidelines on Victoria's assisted dying model....
Read MoreGood news: Tasmania rejects euthanasia
On Wednesday night we received the fantastic news that the Tasmanian House of Assembly voted down the Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2016 16-8! This was the third attempt in 10 years to try to introduc...
Read MoreBill to legislate abortion on demand in NSW fails
Last week, Thursday 11 May 2017, Mehreen Faruqi MLC's bill to legalise abortion on demand in New South Wales was voted down, by the significant margin of 25 votes to 14. Watch the exact moment t...
Read More"Help us Design Programme for euthanasing"
The Vic Andrews Govt has released a Discussion paper on its proposed Euthanasia Bill asking Victorians to help design the death bill! Prof Brian Owler, Chair-Ministerial Advisory Panel stated&nb...
Read MoreAssisted Suicide: The Musical
With the Victorian Premier pushing for a parliamentary conscience vote on euthanasia this year, Assisted Suicide: The Musical is a must see at the Festival! Following sell-out shows in the UK, disa...
Read MoreTermination of Pregnancy Law Reform Bill 2017 passes in the Northern Territory
Under the guise of ‘contemporary’ legislation the NT’s 25 member Legislative Assembly swept through a “tick-box” abortion-to-23 week bill in Parliament late Tuesday 21 Ma...
Read More40 Days for Life
The next 40 Days for Life campaign starts again on Wednesday the 1st of March (Ash-Wednesday) and finishes the 9th of April (Palm-Sunday)....
Read MoreRight to Life condemns Bishop’s endorsement of baby killing
MEDIA RELEASEFor immediate release16 February 2017 The President of Right to Life Australia, Mrs Margaret Tighe, today condemned the action of the Turnbull government in deciding to increase funding ...
Read MoreMarch for Life Brisbane 2017
Why should you attend? Because you do not want abortion in Queensland to be allowed up to the day of birth as it currently is in Victoria’s legislation. ...
Read MoreA Doctor-Assisted Disaster For Medicine
By Professor William L. Toffler MD As a physician in Oregon, I have seen the dire effect of assisted-suicide laws on patients and my profession....
Read MoreANDREWS’ JOB TO PROVIDE PATIENT CARE NOT PATIENT KILLING
The President of Right to Life Australia Ms Margaret Tighe said today, (8/12/16) on the announcement that assisted dying bill will be introduced in Victoria in 2017 that “We have the most anti-...
Read MoreAndrews Government signs its own death wish
Right to Life Australia media release 7 December 2016 The President of Right to Life Australia Ms Margaret Tighe said today that “in signing the death warrant of future victims of the Andrews&...
Read MoreHow your MP voted to defeat euthanasia in SA
Right to Life Australia congratulates all MPs who voted against euthanasia in the South Australian parliament. The following information details how your MP voted ...
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The Right to Life Australia Inc. defends the right to life of all human beings from conception until natural death. We lobby government for legal protection of the most vulnerable in society – the unborn baby, elderly, sick and those with disabilities.