More than 50 babies are born alive each year in Victoria following botched late term abortions.

They are given no care, but left to die.

In at least one case, such a baby’s death is said to have been hastened by dropping him into a bucket of formaldehyde.

When one Member of Parliament (Mr Kavanagh) moved in the Victorian Legislative Council that these deaths should be made the subject of a formal investigation, his fellow MP’s voted it out.

Three also insulted him, saying he was “disgusting” . . . .

They say that if you throw a rock into a pack of dogs and hear a yelp, you know you’ve got one.

It seems Mr Kavanagh managed a score of three.

Perhaps some who felt so perturbed were Catholics, and knew that they should be supporting the motion, but lacked the fortitude.

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Likewise, in the Synod of the Anglican Church, when Rev Mark Durie moved that the church put questions to the Victorian government about the indications for late term abortions — and the government’s policy regarding management of those “accidentally” born alive . . . .

The motion was never put, thanks to a further motion (put by guess who? yes, by the Rev Ray Cleary) that the subject be not discussed.

Mr Durie told the meeting how that nurse who had to kill the baby with the formaldehyde was very upset.

The law in this perverse, filthy, nauseating state of Victoria is such that if she had not done that homicidal deed she could have been sacked or even locked up — at least in theory.

There is no provision for conscientious objection for non-medical hospital staff in Mr Brumby’s enlightened abortion “reform” legislation. Mr Baillieu hasn’t changed anything.

In the USA there is a Born Alive Infant Protection Act, which requires that any baby born alive in whatever circumstance be legally considered a person, and receive medical attention as needed.

But not here.

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The excuse is sometimes given that late term abortions need doing when the baby is abnormal and is going to perish anyway.

However, the fact is that more than half of such abortions are done for “psychosocial reasons” – in other words, for no reason at all . . . .

Except the baby’s existence being an inconvenience.