Big Bucks to help Queensland “women and pregnant people” get even more abortions!

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.

And the Action Plan is laced with another abuse of the English language. Sentences such as, “the government’s commitment to meeting the sexual and reproductive health needs of women and pregnant people . . .” and “ . . . women and pregnant people should be able to make informed sexual and reproductive health choices”, appear about 20 times throughout “The Plan”. Hmmm.

Moreover, it is blithely asserted in “The Plan” that, “access to safe termination of pregnancy is a human right”. They simply made that “right” up and then they expect everyone to just accept it! (And sadly many do.)

Money to support this “right” is to be thrown around like confetti: $20 million plus to “Enhance the termination of pregnancy workforce”; nearly $10 million to “Establish contemporary models of care” (whatever that means); over $8 million to “Support non-government organisations to provide wraparound termination of pregnancy support” (?); and on it goes.

It appears that money is no object when it comes to abortion, or “termination of pregnancy”,  as “The Plan” prefers to euphemistically name it throughout.

There seems to be a particular emphasis on ensuring that First Nation women “and pregnant people” can get readier access to ending the lives of their preborn children. To date, “91 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Workers and 149 other clinical staff have been engaged in learning, workshops, and peer support sessions at 19 sites across 4 Hospital and Health Services. 23 health workers have volunteered to be pregnancy options “safe people” in their local communities”. How thoughtful.

And here is a rather Orwellian role title that keen young nurses can now aspire to: “The Termination of Pregnancy Nurse Navigator”!

Sadly, all this awfulness gets support from those who should least support it. Alison Weatherstone, Chief Midwife, Australian College of Midwives: “The Australian College of Midwives acknowledges Queensland Health’s work to ensure equity and access for Queensland women for termination of pregnancy services, in particular for midwives and nurse practitioners to prescribe MS 2-Step. This is a win for women’s health in Queensland.” Huh? So midwives now are just as willing to kill a baby as help them?

Then there is from the Royal Australian and New Zealand College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists: “RANZCOG is pleased to continue being involved in the improvement of abortion care in Queensland...” Huh again. Whatever happened to “first do no harm”?

And lastly, Dr Kathryn Saba, Staff Specialist Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Royal Brisbane Women’s Hospital: “General Practitioners in the community are either increasingly comfortable providing abortion care or becoming more aware of colleagues or hospital’s that provide abortion care and referring women on in a timely manner...”.

General practitioners becoming “... increasingly comfortable providing abortion care...  ‘! Sadly that is all too true with the number of ordinary medical practices providing the abortion pill mushrooming around the State, indeed around the country.

No, it seems that the pro-abortionists will never be satisfied.

Our thanks to courageous pro-lifer Graham Preston for this article (protect-life.info).