The Greens are once again pushing their extreme pro-abortion agenda, this time in New South Wales.

Their latest bill seeks to allow nurses and midwives to become abortionists by prescribing abortion chemicals to expectant mothers, further entrenching the culture of death in our healthcare system.

Family First strongly opposes this reckless legislation and calls on MPs to reject it.

Abortion is already too easy to access in Australia, and the Greens want to make it even easier.

Their bill would enable more health practitioners to prescribe MS-2 Step, the drug used for chemical abortions, without requiring the oversight of a doctor.

This move ignores the serious physical and psychological risks that come with abortion pills. Studies show that chemical abortion carries a significantly higher complication rate than surgical abortion, with women facing severe bleeding, excruciating pain, infections, and incomplete abortions requiring surgery.

Worse still, women in regional areas could be left to manage these complications alone, without access to emergency care.

The reality of medical abortion is far from what its proponents claim. Women taking the pills at home alone may experience hours, even days, of severe cramping and heavy bleeding.

Some report passing recognisable human remains, an experience that can cause profound emotional distress.

Unlike a surgical abortion performed in a clinical setting, a chemical abortion leaves a woman to deal with the trauma largely by herself, with no medical supervision if something goes wrong.

(This is not to justify surgical abortions, which involve the pureeing or dismemberment of unborn babies).

This legislation is not about healthcare—it’s about expanding the abortion industry.

The Greens’ bill also forces medical professionals who object to abortion on ethical or religious grounds to refer women to abortion providers, effectively stripping them of their conscience rights.

This trashes their human rights, while obviously extinguishing the right to life of the baby.

It also pressures hospitals to provide abortions, even if they are faith-based institutions that stand for life.

Family First believes that every unborn child has the right to life and that our laws should protect the most vulnerable.

Instead of pushing radical pro-abortion policies, the government should be supporting women with real choices, including better pregnancy support services, adoption pathways, and crisis housing.

Family First is deeply concerned that women facing unplanned pregnancies are often driven into the arms of abortionists due to a lack of real support. No woman should feel forced into an abortion because she believes she has no other option.

This bill is another step towards normalising abortion on demand at any stage, for any reason. Family First urges the NSW Parliament to reject this dangerous expansion and stand for life.

As of now, the bill is awaiting debate in the NSW Parliament.

Initial indications suggest there is a chance it could pass, with Health Minister Ryan Park confirming that Labor MPs will have a conscience vote on the bill.

The Liberal and National parties have not yet determined their stance on allowing a conscience vote.

The bill could be debated as early as March 19, 2025, but the exact timing has not been confirmed.

Some MPs, such as John Ruddick, have spoken against the bill. Family First welcomes those who stand for life and calls on others in Parliament to do the same.

Family First welcomes Vice-President JD Vance’s powerful pro-life speech at last week’s March for Life in Washington DC.

He made a compelling case for protecting unborn babies—something no establishment Australian political leader dares to do.

“We march to proclaim and live out the sacred truth that every single child is a miracle and a gift from God,” Vance declared. 

Speaking as a father, he described the awe of welcoming new life: “Each time Usha and I welcomed our own children into the world, we saw firsthand the indescribable beauty of new life.”

Yet, this joy comes with responsibility. “It is our responsibility to cherish and to protect it.”

Vance stressed that protecting life is about more than opposing abortion—it’s about fostering a pro-family culture.

“The task of our movement is to protect innocent life. It’s to defend the unborn, and it’s also to be pro-family and pro-life in the fullest sense of that word possible.”  

But he warned that Western societies are failing in this duty.

“Our society has failed to recognise the obligation that one generation has to another is a core part of living in a society to begin with.”

He condemned the rise of radical individualism, where family life is seen as a burden rather than a blessing.

Instead, Vance called for policies that make it easier to have and raise children.

“I want more babies in the United States of America. I want more happy children in our country. And I want beautiful young men and women who are eager to welcome them into the world and eager to raise them.”  

To achieve this, he said government must do more: “It is the task of our government to make it easier for young mums and dads to afford to have kids, to bring them into the world, and to welcome them as the blessings that we know they are.”

Family First agrees, which is why we support policies such as income splitting for tax purposes to give mothers, or fathers, a real choice when it comes to caring for their own children at home.

Vance’s leadership exposes the cowardice of Australian politicians on the issue of pro-family and pro-life policy.

While he boldly defends unborn life, leaders here either stay silent or actively protect our radical abortion-to-birth laws. 

Opposition leader Peter Dutton has even gagged his MPs from discussing Australia’s extreme abortion laws, ensuring the issue remains unchallenged.

This is despite Australia being one of the few nations in the world that permits abortion right up to birth.

Labor is all in on abortion-to-birth and wants to expand access to it, even though it is readily available and subsidised by pro-life Australians through their compulsory Medicare Levy. 

Vance reminded us of a truth too many in politics refuse to acknowledge: “It is a blessing to know the truth, and the truth is that unborn life is worthy of protection.” 

He cut through the euphemisms that dehumanise the unborn: “That picture on an ultrasound, that is a picture of a baby with hopes and dreams and potential to come.”

Above all, Vance called on pro-lifers to embrace their mission with optimism.

“It is a joy and a blessing to fight for the unborn, to work for the unborn, and to march for life.”  

Family First echoes this joy and stands with Vance in calling for a society that cherishes life. 

Australian politicians must stop silencing debate and start advocating for policies that support life and family.

As Vance said: “We are joyful to march for life. We are joyful to know that that picture on an ultrasound, that is a picture of a baby with hopes and dreams and potential to come.”

Family First calls on Anthony Albanese and Peter Dutton to fight for the overturning of convictions against Australia’s convicted pro-life advocates Kathy Clubb and Graeme Preston.

This follow’s Donald Trump's decision this week to pardon 23 pro-life advocates who were unjustly convicted under the US’s so-called Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act.

Trump’s commendable action underscores the importance of safeguarding the rights of citizens advocating for the sanctity of life.

President Trump emphasised the peaceful nature of these protests, stating, "They should not have been prosecuted. Many of them are elderly people."

He further described the group as "peaceful protesters" who were unjustly penalised for their advocacy.

This development prompts us to reflect on similar situations within Australia, particularly the cases of pro-life advocates Kathy Clubb and Graham Preston.

Both were convicted under laws prohibiting protests within exclusion zones around abortion mills.

In 2016, Clubb was arrested for attempting to hand a pamphlet to a couple outside a Melbourne clinic, while Preston faced charges for protesting within the exclusion zone of a Hobart clinic in 2014 and 2015.

Their appeals to the High Court were dismissed, with the court ruling that the laws served a legitimate purpose and outweighed concerns about freedom of speech within the zones.

This decision has been criticised for its implications on free speech and the ability to offer assistance to women considering abortion.

Pro-life leaders have denounced the ruling, stating it has grave implications for freedom of speech in Australia as well as the safety of women and children.

Family First agrees.

In light of President Trump's recent pardons, Family First calls upon Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and Opposition Leader Peter Dutton to advocate for the overturning of the convictions of Kathy Clubb and Graham Preston.

Their peaceful pro-life advocacy should not be criminalised, and their actions were driven by a genuine concern for both unborn children and their mothers.

A little-known part of the Christmas story is the Judean King Herod’s grisly slaughter of Bethlehem’s babies in the hope he might kill the Christ child.

Informed by star-gazing Wise Men from the far east that a new king had been born, Herod moved quickly to protect his career by seeking to snuff out the life of a perceived challenger.

His material comfort and position were under threat, babies must be killed.

The Bible, which records the joy and tragedy of the first Christmas, also tells us in its wisdom books that there is nothing new under the sun.

Fast forward two thousand years to two weeks before Christmas 2024 and the newly crowned king Crisafulli of Queensland was considering how he could shore up his power.

Perceiving his biggest threat to be his majority pro-life party room, he felt compelled to prioritise the uninterrupted killing of babies to birth (and even after) for the next four years of his rule.

The Katter’s Australia Party Leader Robbie Katter had promised to introduce a bill into the Parliament to require medical assistance to be rendered to babies born alive after surviving their abortion, something that occurs at about the rate of one per week in Australia.

Because these inconvenient survivors would open a debate about the human rights of unborn babies and the laws in Queensland which allow them to be killed right up to the moment of birth, threatening our sexually “liberated” society’s love of abortion as a backup contraceptive, Crisafulli felt he needed to act.

He and his leadership team secretly cooked up a scheme to impose an unprecedented gag upon the seat of Queensland democracy by imposing a motion which prohibits discussion of abortion.

But no issue should be off limits for discussion by elected people, least of all the killing of innocent children in their mothers’ wombs - and often outside as whistle blower midwives are revealing.

A gag like this has never been attempted but if the issue was any other than abortion, there would be hell to pay from a media baying for transparency. Instead and perversely, they only bay for the blood of aborted babies.

Crisafulli’s edict, like Herod’s, contained deadly consequences for society’s most vulnerable.

The last words Crisafulli and his soldiers heard before voting for the gag were Katter’s pleas on behalf of those who could not speak for themselves.

“There are kids dying in bins—and that was from the coroner’s report. That is not speculation; that is not disputed,” he told the Parliament.

“There are kids whose hearts were still pumping—and some would question whether they were alive or not—but they are being thrown in a waste bin. That is a pretty big issue.

“Whether we think it is right or wrong or will end on pro-life, it does not really matter,” Katter continued.

“We cannot ignore that it is there and it is happening right now.

“It should be addressed, whether it is agreed with or not. The debate cannot be truncated…certainly those babies need representation.”

This fell on deaf ears as the Queensland LNP voted as one to gag debate so the killing before and after birth could continue without debate or discussion for four years.

Harder hearts at Christmas have rarely been seen in 2000 years.

In a single procedural motion of the Parliament, David Crisafulli turned the Queensland Liberal National Party into an anti-democratic death cult.

Herod would be proud that such despotism could be achieved in a modern liberal democracy.

Matthew, a tax collector on behalf of the occupying Romans who became a disciple of the child who survived the massacre, Jesus, quoted the prediction by the Jewish prophet Jeremiah some 700 years beforehand of the baby slaughter:

“A voice was heard in Ramah,

    weeping and loud lamentation,

Rachel weeping for her children;

    she refused to be comforted, because they are no more.”

In August a modern-day Rachel went before a Queensland Parliamentary committee and testified of the slaughter of babies in Queensland hospitals.

Other midwives from around the nation have also come forward to put a human face on health department statistics which for years have shown that babies are routinely born alive after abortion and left to die.

Whistle-blower midwife Louise Adsett wept as she told the politicians the following:

"A mother made a decision to abort her baby at 21 plus week's gestation. The process began in the morning with misoprostol (a poison used to kill unborn babies) given throughout the day.

“The process took all day, and the baby was only delivered during the early hours of a night shift, where skeleton staff was on duty.

“This baby moved vigorously, gasped for breath, and had a palpable heart rate.

“To make it clear, this baby was alive. It was over 400 grams, so the baby was a good weight. The parents of this baby did not desire to see or hold this baby.

“Midwives and doctors were left holding this little life while it continued to, while they continued to provide care for other women who were birthing and welcoming their babies into the world.

“This baby boy fought for his life for five hours before taking his final breath."

Crisafulli, thy name is Herod.

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