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 and I.
In Australia today most states allow abortion right up till birth. Many of you would not be aware of that.
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 Legislative council this week (Voluntary Assisted Dying Bill 2019). Enter postcode or suburb to find your region: http://www.boundaries.wa.gov.au/
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 to vote against the bill. Amendments do not stop the killing of the unborn.
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 are likely to die within 12 months. This differs from Victoria where terminally ill people must have less than 6 months to live.
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 so proud a leading cancer treatment hospital in the southern hemisphere - should involve itself in providing physician-assisted suicide”.
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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.
PO Box 2029, Brunswick East
Victoria 3057 Australia
Phone: (03) 9385 0100
Fax: (03) 9384 6811
Email: rtl@rtlaust.com
www.righttolife.com.au
We are non-party political and non-denominational. Right to Life is a political pressure group working to uphold the right to life of every person from conception to natural death. As such Right to Life Australia will strongly campaign against abortion, IVF, euthanasia, infanticide, embryo stem cell research. Right to Life Australia provides free counselling to women facing crisis pregnancies.
