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 abortions to increase access, establishing a new national telephone service to refer women directly to abortion clinics, and to push for the decriminalisation of abortion in NSW.
For our South Australian supporters, please contact your Members of the Legislative Council in South Australia urgently.
Tammy Franks MLC (Greens) has introduced the Statutes Amendment (Abortion Law Reform) Bill 2018 to be debated on Wednesday 27 February 2019. Abortion is already available up to 7 months in South Australia.
The bill proposes that abortion:
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 that region. After Tara and her fellow VEP candidate were eliminated the VEP votes were passed on in turn to Fiona Patten’s Reason Party, the Animal Justice Party and the Liberal Democrats remaining undistributed as the final seat was filled by the Transport Matters Party. (Preliminary results as at 4 December at: https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/vic-election-2018/results/emet/)
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 the destruction of human life.
As Margaret Tighe, President said, “Never mind the level crossings, the overhead trains, the many cranes in the sky, the roads, tunnels, free sanitary pads for school girls, the help with mobile phones and IVF. The bottom line is Victoria is the abortion state.”
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“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 for more of the same. Yet, the sad reality is that, as a government it deserves to be roundly condemned for its brutal denial of the most basic of human rights – the Right to Life itself,” said Margaret Tighe, President of Right to Life Australia.
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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.
