Abortion bill to be debated
The merchants of death are spruiking their dark arts in the NSW parliament. They are attempting to impose an "abortion on demand" law on all of us.
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The NSW parliament is hoping to emulate the actions of the genetic manipulation people: the old Nazi ideas about selective breeding and "ethnic cleansing"; the Soviet ideas of population "improvement"; the Chinese one-child policies. Our politicians do not see their actions in these terms, but the effects of what they are proposing is the same.
Individual human responsibility for each and every action we make as human beings will be discarded, so that consequences will be ignored. In the process we will be given a "right" to destroy human lives, wherever those lives might inconvenience another individual life.
Abortion is not a human right, simply because we have no a "right" to kill any other human being. Our laws have always insisted on this relationship as paramount in human society. The moment a foetus has a heartbeat it is a viable human being in the making. To kill her or him in the womb is simply one tiny step back from infanticide.
It is no accident that human beings have no entitlement to kill another human being, for whatever reason they can dredge up from the dark recesses of their minds. Communal law has always defended this principle. Just because other jurisdictions have discarded this principle does not make it any the less crucial today.
If we can simply kill an unborn nuisance in our lives, can we also kill all humans suffering from all the other human physical problems? How do we view the severely disabled people, the intellectually disabled people, the obviously anti-social psychopaths needing extra care and attention today. We do not kill these people, despite the increasing financial costs to our community, and the absence of any real hope that we can make their lives better in any individually productive way. But, it appears, we can kill the totally innocent unborn humans. To argue that this is a "right", while acting otherwise with other problems appears to be totally illogical, unnecessary, and essentially harmful socially.
It is no wonder our community and its values is descending into an ever more destructive ethical, social and communal morass. Our "leaders" accept euthanasia and abortion. So, when will they come for the rest of us? Who was it who said "be afraid, be very afraid"?
Bruce Watson, Kentucky NSW
Abortion debate
The decriminalisation of abortion bill, coming up on Tuesday, August 6.
The silent screams of the unborn innocents are sadly in vain. While much talk is being made of women's health and of their rights to do with their own bodies as they please, what rights are granted to the hapless treasures of the womb? We speak of the most basic of rights: the right to live. In the August edition of Family World News, the procedures of abortion have been candidly documented.
Moreover, there is research showing the high likelihood that the unborn child of 20 weeks is actually capable of experiencing more pain that an elderly person. For example, in 1984 Dr Bernard Nathanson brought video footage to the public revealing the contorted face and 'silent scream' of an unborn infant during an abortion procedure.
Let us have the freedom and the courage to speak out for the unborn in the womb. What difference does it make which end of the birth canal the baby happens to be? 'Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee...' (Jeremiah 1:5)
James West, Moore Creek
Newstart debate
Last week in Parliament, Scott Morrison said that he and his government flatly refused to increase the Newstart allowance. He said that he and his government would not indulge in the unfunded empathy of the Labor Party.
That is quite OK, of course. But he might like to practice a bit of the unfunded love of God which he says is all we need. From the height of his own rich man's salary, he might also like to look down and reflect on camels and the eyes of needles.
Grant Agnew, Coopers Plains QLD