Family First strongly opposes the Queensland government’s decision to offer a role for midwives to oversee abortions.

This move not only betrays the essence of midwifery but also disregards the sacred role these professionals play in helping new life enter the world.

Midwives are called to nurture, protect, and guide expectant mothers through one of life’s most profound experiences—childbirth.

They are trained to support life, not to end it. To ask midwives to oversee abortions is to distort their vocation, turning a profession dedicated to bringing life into a practice focused on death.

The recent job advertisement offering up to $147,000 for a midwife to oversee terminations in regional Queensland reveals a government obsessed with a culture of death.

This expansion of abortion services goes against the very ethos of caring for mothers and their unborn children.

Family First believes this is a misguided step that treats life as disposable.

Let midwives continue to do what they were meant to—support new life and mothers, not oversee their death.