Abortion and evil in this green and pleasant land
In this green and pleasant land of Tasmania, run into the ground by feminists, socialists and greenies, it will soon be ILLEGAL to speak out against abortion.
BIG SISTA has spoken.
Whilst what passes for ‘ the thinking public’ has been embroiled in matters of Press Regulation and Freedom of Speech restrictions in Oz (as a lesson taken from the UK), the quiet backwaters have been busy sneaking in draconian ‘part restrictions’ on free speech complete with severe punishment.
“Abortion has effectively been legal in Australian states for more than 40 years, although it has remained in the criminal code. The number of prosecutions in all that time can be counted on one hand. So why the sudden enthusiasm for decriminalization?
“Because the real aim of the Labor-Green coalition which is running Tasmania is to criminalize abortion dissent. With only two weeks for the public to respond, the Health Minister, Michelle O’Byrne, has drafted what may be most draconian abortion law anywhere.
“The neighbouring state of Victoria decriminalized abortion in 2008. Ms O’Byrne says that this is the model for her bill. But the Victorian bill contains no penalties for conscientious objectors; the Tasmanian bill does. The Victorian bill doesn’t mention counsellors; the Tasmanian bill threatens counsellors with jail. The Victorian bill doesn’t mention protests; the Tasmanian bill threatens protesters with jail.”
http://www.billmuehlenberg.com/2013/03/12/tasmania-abortion-and-big-brother/
The penalties proposed are horrendous imposing enormous fines (higher than the national average annual wage) on even disinterested people for ‘failure’ to help procure abortion.
“If this bill passes, a part-time volunteer counsellor for an organization supporting pregnant women could be jailed for a year and fined up to A$65,000 if she refuses to refer a woman to a place where she can get an abortion. The bill’s definition of a counsellor includes anyone who gives ‘advice or information relating to pregnancy options’ and ‘whether or not for fee or reward’. Overnight, all agencies which disagree with abortion will be forced to shut down.
“Medical practitioners will be obliged under threat of a $65,000 fine to make referrals if they have a conscientious objection. To anyone who believes that an unborn child has a right to life making a referral means cooperating with evil. The proposed laws are coercing participation in the overall process of abortion procurement.
“Nurses who refuse to participate in abortions could be fined $65,000. The right to peaceful protest will also be shut down. The bill imposes a 300-metre-wide exclusion zone around abortion clinics. The maximum penalty is 12 months in jail and a $65,000 fine…
“To make matters worse, the prohibited activity includes intimidating, protesting or photographing, and ‘any other prescribed [sic] behaviour’. The sloppy wording, in combination with an open-ended section on regulations, could be used to punish innocent activity.
I know and understand the difficulty many women may have from time to time with their personal attitude toward abortion. I would not be at the head o a queue to throw stones. But this Feminist-led Bill, from the claimed ‘nurturing’ sex, would not just throw stones at anyone speaking out for the silent unborn child, but actually throw their sorry arses in jail and deprive their own children of a parental wage.
Just read the second section again. A person who is asked for a view by a pregnant woman, be they a Qualified Professional ‘counsellor’ or just a family member can be JAILED. The Bill makes no distinction between anyone providing ‘counsel’.
Are feminists mad? It is a legitimate question.
Or just bad? That is a legitimate question too.
Filed under: Amfortas, Politics & economics, Society & human issues
If I may add: Anyone advocating against an abortion is liable to jail and heavy fine. They do not have to be a fee-taking counsellor. So a husband who tries to reassure his wife that they can bear and raise a child is in the firing line.
I read that in utter disbelief. Is this likely to be passed?
Tasmania passed the ‘Safe at Home Act’ which facilitates (actually orders) the police to arrest any man accused of DV, even arrest when no actual accusation has been made, and jail him until he signs a document promising ‘not to be violent again’. Only then will he be taken before a Magistrate. The very first man so arrested was the son of the only Independant (non-party affiliated) Senator who languished in jail for three months refusing to sign a document that admitted guilt for something he did not do. It took affidavits from the supposed victim and many others to get him freed.
That law was pushed through by the Attorney General Judy Jackson, who was a divorced man-hater, a feminist and a drunkard. She was eventually ousted but the law remains.
So is it likey to be passed? Yes. And we have a euthenasia bill before Parliament at the same time. That is likely to get through too.
The problem today is ‘rotten apple syndrome’. Let in one bad law and it rots the moral sense of the whole. More rot follows as night follows day.
Oh my dear. I am very sorry, and glad in a sense, that in the U.K. things have not yet reached such a level.
The noise of protest has reached the ears of the ‘Speaker’ of the House who has extended the ‘submissions’ period by two weeks. It was originally just two weeks which included a public holiday and a long weekend. The O’Byrne feminazi was hoping to rush it through before people could object.
It gave me time to draft a submission and email it to all the MPs.
(as follows)
Submission
Reproductive Health (Access to Termination) Bill.
Population Health Equity
GPO Box 125
Hobart,
Tasmania 7001
16 March 2013
Dear Sirs/Madams.
I wish to register my strong objections to this dreadful Bill that is to be introduced by the Tasmanian Health Minister, Michelle O’Byrne.
I do so on three main grounds: Life itself; the mental, physical and emotional health of women; and Freedom of Speech.
I will take each in turn.
1. Life.
Human existence contains only two defining instants,
which are conception and death.
And this is not a matter of “religion” but of biology.
All other milestones, no matter how dramatically recognized in society,
amount to transitional phases in the human life cycle.
So despite all of the grandiose but empty oratory,
any individual who does not advocate the defence of all innocent human life
between those two landmarks
is an individual who holds no regard for the sanctity of human life on the whole.
Australia aborts 80,000 immanent Australian children every year. This is a horror. It is uncivilised, cruel, self defeating as a Nation.
These Australian babies have done no wrong, committed no crime, offended no-one. Yet they are sentenced to death and killed in the most horrible manner.
Their Right to Life is enshrined in the 1947 Human Rights Declaration of the United Nations, to which Australia is a signatory. The Unborn have especial mention in the Preamble to the Declaration because they are so vulnerable and need politicians to speak up on their behalf. Their right is totally disregarded by this Bill. Indeed, rejected.
An unborn child injured or killed in a motor vehicle accident has their personhood recognised and acknowledged, and manslaughter charges brought against the person who caused the accident if they were culpably negligent.
Yet this Bill disregards the personhood of the Unborn. It advocates killing them.
I stand for the defence of the voiceless unborn, and I want YOU to as well.
Reject this awful Bill.
2. The mental, physical and emotional health of women.
I was a psychologist for 25 years. Every year I could count upon dealing with at least five female patients who were suffering from mental, physical or emotional distress due to a previous abortion.
In some cases I dealt with their husbands too who shared the distress.
Some had willingly sought abortion. Some had been persuaded. Some had been bullied into an abortion by female peers, parents of both sexes, Doctors, Counsellors, the continual agitprop of the media, especially Feminist and Medical media personalities, and in a very few instances, their spouses/’partners’.
ALL suffered guilt and shame, remorse and pain, more often than not quite a few years afterwards.
Their own denial was clear to them as a ‘front’ designed to placate others. They were usually well aware that they had killed a baby and they were internally devastated.
Despite the popular agitprop of “Women’s Rights’, every single patient of this sort that I dealt with felt cheated and abused by the ideology that promotes abortion.
Abortion is a Tragedy. Occasionally it is a tragedy we cannot avoid. Life brings tragedies but we should not be legislating to create more.
I stand for those women. I beg you to stand for them too.
Please, reject this awful, tragedy inducing, tragedy creating Bill.
3. Freedom of Speech.
There are provisions in this Bill that go directly against the Human Rights and Civil Rights of all Australians.
Horrendous fines and jail sentences are proposed for simply giving one’s opinion or going about one’s lawful occasions in the public place.
Almost anyone can be considered to be ‘giving counsel’, and fined/jailed if they do not promote abortion. The Bill specifically indicates that no qualification is needed by the ‘counsellor’.
A husband who encourages his pregnant wife that they can afford a baby and can raise it well, can be jailed /fined for not also proposing an abortion. This is ludicrous. It completely disregards, even punishes Fathers.
Professional, qualified people (Doctors, Nurses) can be fined/jailed for following their better Conscience. Even a plumber can turn a job down or a builder refuse to tender for a house with no penalty or liability of a jail sentence. But a Nurse will lose a year’s pay and a Doctor a substantial part of hers/his. Both might even be jailed. A great way to ruin our hospitals.
The jail sentence recommended is greater than for actual manslaughter in some cases. This is ludicrous.
Someone taking a photograph in the street can be fined for not even knowing that an abortion clinic is nearby. And if they know and actually photograph it, they will be fined/jailed.
Protesters against Abortion currently have a right to make their views known in public. This Bill will ‘outlaw’ them. It will take away their Freedom of Speech.
You had better inform your Justice Minister to prepare a cell for me.
I WILL deliberately break this onerous, totalitarian ‘Law’.
I ask you to as well should you fail to prevent the passing of this Bill.
Please take and act on this submission.
Yours Sincerely,
(Me.)
cc emails
‘jim.wilkinson@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘elise.archer@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘scott.bacon@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘matthew.groom@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘cassy.oconnor@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘graeme.sturges@parliament.tas.gov.au’
‘hobart@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘adriana.taylor@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘sue.smith@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘tania.rattray@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘tony.mulder@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘paul.harriss@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘greg.hall@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘Vanessa.goodwin@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘Michael.gaffney@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘ruth.forrest@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘kerry.finch@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘craig.farrell@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘ivan.dean@parliament.tas.gov.au’; ‘rosemary.armitage@parliament.tas.gov.au’
Lets hope they listen to reason. If this is a taste of things to come, they better prepare a cell for half of the population.
Unfortunately most of the female half support abortion as a ‘womyn’s right’. The male half seem to want abortions too in far too many instances.
Well done, Amfortas – go for it.
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