20 July 2010

Dear Member of Parliament,

Re: Baby Safe Havens needed in New South Wales

It was not considered an April Fools Day joke on 1 April 2010 when the Daily Telegraph reported an abandoned baby had been found early that morning outside a house in southern New South Wales. While baby Adam seems to be in foster care now, we are additionally hopeful that a more permanent solution is being sought. If we can be of assistance, please let us know.

That said, Tasmania’s Labor Senator Helen Polley has convinced me that Baby Safe Havens are needed in New South Wales. Her recent experience about yet another baby boy abandoned in a bus shelter in Shepparton, Victoria, ended in tragedy. 

Dear Sir,

It would be nonsense for abortion law reform supporters to take heart from the recently published national survey on abortion. The survey simply reinforces the often expressed opinions of a majority of Australians, namely that under certain circumstances the woman’s right to life affords her greater legal protection than her child’s right to life. Women decide when these circumstances apply and their decision is deemed legal “of necessity”. As a result, no woman has been prosecuted in New South Wales for procuring an abortion for more than 40 years.

A publication in the Medical Journal of Australia about Australian attitudes to early and late abortion has been described as inaccurate and arguably undependable by NSW Right to Life’s CEO, Chiang Lim. Authors of the publication and survey include Lachlan J de Crespigny, Dominic J Wilkinson, Thomas Douglas, Mark Textor and Julian Savulescu.

Based on an online survey of 1,050 Australians (including 526 Victorians) by Crosby/Textor over 3 days (28-31 July 2008) in the lead-up to the Victorian State Parliament’s debate for the decriminalisation of abortion, the survey suggests Australians’ views on abortion.

Britain ’s Department of Health and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists has confirmed that unborn babies after 24-weeks are capable of feeling pain. Their findings are in stark contrast to the pro-abortion supporters who continually insist that unborn babies are simply “clumps of cells”.

According to existing NSW law, unborn baby Zoe was not a human being because, despite spending eight months in her mother’s womb, the baby did not take a breath. Unborn baby Zoe was killed when her heavily pregnant mother was run down on Christmas Day by a 40 year old driver allegedly on drugs. Still to be heard in court, the culpable driver’s charges are limited to driving under the influence of drugs and dangerous driving causing grievous bodily harm. 

In February 2010, the Australian Federal Parliament unanimously agreed to prevent the death penalty from ever being reintroduced in the Commonwealth or in any Australian state or territory.

The Crimes Legislation Amendment (Torture Prohibition and Death Penalty Abolition) Act ensures that the barbaric act of capital punishment will never be practised ever again anywhere in Australia. One would be forgiven that the death penalty did not exist in Australia because of its long absence. However, until this Bill, there was nothing to stop any Australian Federal, State or Territory Parliament from reintroducing the death penalty.

If euthanasia supporters themselves condemn Philip Nitschke, then you know this is horribly wrong.

The Peaceful Pill Handbook which was successfully challenged by NSW Right to Life and subsequently banned by the Australian Government’s Classification Review Board in February 2007, is now on-line and available to the whole world.

“In his unrestrained attempts to achieve euthanasia, Philip Nitschke has put the very people he says he helps in harm’s way,” said Chiang Lim, CEO of NSW Right to Life.