Brodie Donegan was eight months pregnant when a car hit her near her home at Ourimbah, NSW, on Christmas Day 2009.

She suffered a fractured pelvis and her baby was born dead.

The (female) driver of the car, allegedly drug-affected, escaped unhurt.

The mother wants the driver charged with murder, but Attorney-General John Hatzistergos says No. Current NSW homicide laws only apply to children who have been born alive.

So the driver will face court appearances, but only in relation to the injuries to the mother.

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Shouldn’t these laws be changed?

Here politics rears its ugly head.

This is a touchy subject.

The feminist pro-abortion sisterhood will be watching.

Let’s postpone a decision on this.

Preferably forever.

At least for a long time.

Perhaps let’s have an Inquiry . . . .

Sure enough, today, five months later, Premier Kristina Keneally announced that a former judge has been appointed to review these laws.

After all, she says, it’s a complex issue.

“With the changes in technology, it is getting more and more difficult to pinpoint where life begins,” she says.

Nonsense.  We now know, even better, what we’ve known for generations — that a new human life begins the moment the paternal DNA enters the egg cell.

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Once upon a time in 1958, French researcher, Professor Jerome Lejeune, discovered the chromosome causing Down Syndrome.

He was invited to address the United Nations.

His speech followed others expressing views favourable to abortion.  So in his speech, Lejeune said, “Here we see an institute of health turning itself into an institute of death.”

That evening he phoned his wife, “This afternoon I lost my Nobel Prize.”

His Downs discovery would normally have guaranteed a Nobel.  But, sure enough, he never got it.

Such honours aren’t for people who stand up for the unborn.

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Has Mrs Keneally, too, noticed that the position of premier isn’t really intended for people willing to make a stand for legally acknowledging the unborn as real human beings?