Abortion to term – the horrific baby-killing bandwagon Down Under
by Paul Collits, The Conservative Woman:
Earlier this month New South Wales and New Zealand passed legislation that decriminalises abortion of full-term babies. Paul Collits’s report on this regressive and inhuman legislation is republished here with the kind permission of Quadrant.
[…] The 8th of the 8th in 2019 will go down as the day that abortion on demand, up to birth, was enabled on both sides of the Tasman. New South Wales was the last of the Eastern seaboard states to fall, and Jacindarella across the Ditch has also got on board the baby-killing bandwagon. And the NSW legislation was promoted and introduced by a Kiwi import, no less.
The NSW Legislative Assembly vote was 59-31. A similar Bill passed the first stage of the process in the New Zealand parliament 94-23.
The strangely much-adored NZ Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern stated:
How long a journey it would have felt for many inside and outside the House for this day. The time is right for us to put women’s dignity and rights at the centre of this discussion.
Such is the Orwellian newspeak so typical of this debate, where pretty-sounding phrases gloss over bloody realities. The NSW Legislative Assembly burst into cheering at the passage of the legislation.
In both countries, the abortion legislation was introduced under the cover of removing abortion from the criminal code.
There are subtle differences between the respective Bills: for example, the NZ legislation is proposing to move from two doctors being needed to agree to one doctor. In New South Wales it will be two doctors. But the differences merely amount to different degrees of ghastliness. They are both creating radically new and liberal rules about when unborn human lives can be legally ended, under cover of ‘decriminalisation’. And passed on the same day!
There is process difference as well. In New Zealand, there is only one house for the legislation to pass, but there will be a committee process with an opportunity for public submissions. No such luck in Sydney. At least, despite NZ First’s members supporting the Bill there, they are pitching for a referendum. I cannot see the Kiwi population at large voting in such numbers for allowing abortion up to birth.
There are many aspects of the NSW legislation, including its content, timing, the lack of warning to the electorate, the divide between popular and parliamentary opinion on the issue of late-term abortion, the lack of protection for pro-life doctors and the legislation’s enablement by a so-called party of the Right, that have left genuine conservatives in a state of shock.
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