World Vision is believed by many to be a basically Christian organisation.

Unaware, no doubt, of an article appearing on WV’s website concerning “Improving Maternal, Newborn and Child Health in Papua New Guinea” (October 2011) — which says that, amongst other things, the provision of “safe abortion” is “very good” value for money.

The Salvation Army represents itself as a Christian group — but it’s a fence-sitter regarding the sanctity of human life.

It teaches that in cases of rape or incest “an abortion may be justified because . . . .”

Also that abortion “may also be justified where reliable diagnostic procedures determine that a foetal abnormality is present which is incompatible with life other than a brief post-natal survival . . . .”

And the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) in its recent policy platform recommends “protection and promotion of reproductive health, including . . . secure access to safe, affordable, Medicare-funded abortions . . . .”

Oxfam Australia, CARE Australia and Save the Children Australia jointly published a media statement praising President Obama’s 2009 decision to “abolish the rule that denies US taxpayer dollars to international family planning clinics that provide . . . abortion to women in developing countries.”

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Some well-meaning donors to the above groups might feel they’ve been recruited under false pretences if they ever learn what their agency really stands for.

Britain’s Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice has recently ruled that there is no justification for prohibiting private abortion clinics from advertising their services on television.

Private abortion businesses will be permitted to advertise themselves using terms such as “post-conception advice services”, with the emphasis on how they can arrange ultrasound scans etc.

They will not be obliged to state that they have a financial interest in aborting the babies of those who come seeking “post-conception advice”.

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The Committee requires that the adverts will be subject to a Code stipulating that such advertisements are not to be “harmful, offensive or misleading”.

Doesn’t everybody know that abortion is harmful to the baby?

And isn’t it also harmful to the whole society — in its cheapening of the sanctity of human life.

The small lives to be exterminated are children of God.

And therefore of infinite worth – a fact more important than the profit margins of Mary Stokes International etc.

In the last 20 years the population of Russia has FALLEN 3 percent.

The average number of children per family is currently 1.4, well below replacement rate.

The Russian government has enacted a scheme which pays mothers $10,000 approx for having more children – but with no effect.

It recently voted to ban abortions beyond 12 weeks into pregnancy – hoping to reverse the downhill trend.

But it hasn’t.

There are built-in loopholes.

For those in “economic hardship”, abortions will be allowed up to 22 weeks.

Some of the injustices of the past still persist. Consent of husband is not required.

For under-age girls, consent by parents is not required.

Doctors with conscientious objection to exterminating the unborn are not exempted.

The new legislation at least acknowledges that Russia is aborting itself out of existence — but the bullet hasn’t really been bitten.

They will need to pass further, more realistic, laws.

Pro-homosexual activis-journaliststs are now claiming that same sex marriage is ALREADY a human right.

Why?

Because the United Nations says so – in its 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

OK.

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Let’s not forget that the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (1989) asserts that states which have signed (e.g. Australia) “recognize that every child has the inherent right to life. . . ”

And “shall ensure to the maximum extent possible the survival and development of the child.”

It stipulates also that “the child, by reason of his physical and mental immaturity, needs special safeguards and care, including appropriate legal protection, before as well as after birth”.

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So will Australia’s secular media now campaign to spread the word that abortion (killing the child before birth) is illegal – because the United Nations says so?

Perhaps not.

Perhaps we only quote the UN when what they say happens to suit current fashionable thought.

Tonight, Tuesday 13 September, around 6:30pm, in Canberra’s Parliament House Theatre, Prime Minister Julia Gillard is making the “Emily’s List Inaugural Oration”.

Emily’s List being (according to its website) “a financial, political and personal support network for the election of progressive Labor women candidates.”

It stipulates that: “A woman candidate, to be satisfactory, must be a ‘feminist’ in the best sense of the word….”

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The key word in all that is the word “progressive”

“Pro-gressive” is a code word for pro-abortion.

What Emily’s List really stands for can be summed up in two words: “DEAD BABIES”.

So, within the Australian Labor Party is a power-hungry inner circle of females committed to promoting the “right” to abortion.

About three-quarters of ALP women Members of Parliament belong to Emily’s List.

A good reason why a thinking person cannot, unfortunately, even think about supporting the Australian Labor Party in its present form.

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Sometimes I think I detect in Julia G a kind of embarrassment about the anti-life, anti-family postures of her party.

She is an intelligent person. She is capable of abstract thought.

One day she may make a stand on an important issue — and simultaneously both destroy her political future and save her soul.

It’s just a thought.

Victorian doctors regularly receive unsolicited publicity material from Marie Stopes International, an abortion-performing organisation.

The latest included a message saying, “Talk to us about exciting career opportunities in sexual and reproductive health . . . including procedural and sedationist roles.”

In other words, they are having trouble finding doctors willing to do abortions for them.

Many doctors are willing to refer women to be aborted. Most, however, could never bring themselves to commit such an act personally.

Perhaps this “career” attracts mainly doctors who are no good at their job — or who have other issues that their patients/victims wouldn’t enjoy knowing about.

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Last May, Dr James Peters, anaesthetist (“sedationist”) at one of the Marie Stopes clinics in Melbourne, was charged with having negligently infected 54 clients with Hepatitis C.

Last week, this same clinic was in the news again — a 40-year old lady undergoing late-term abortion of a 24-week baby having to be rushed to Box Hill Hospital Intensive Care Unit.

A Marie Stopes spokeswoman stated, “As part of our medical quality process and protocol we have commenced a priority internal investigation.”

Victorian State Health Minister, David Davies, says it also warrants a governmental investigation.

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The State of Victoria decriminalised abortion in November 2008.

Babies can be terminated right up to term, i.e. 9 months.

The Marie Stopes Clinics are the worst. They take on cases nobody else will touch — attracting patients from interstate and even overseas.

One must feel sorry for the lady who was desperate enough, for whatever reasons, to submit herself to this procedure.

Pray God that she may survive.

But it’s hard to feel good about those who choose to work for a living in such a subhuman industry.