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March for Life set to attract big crowd opposed to abortion, euthanasia

byMark Bowling
19 April 2021
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March for Life set to attract big crowd opposed to abortion, euthanasia

Living hope: A protester holds a life-affirming placard as the 2019 March for Life outside the Queensland Parliament. The event was not held last year due to COVID-19 restrictions, but a big crowd is expected for the 2021 march on May 8. Photo: Alan Edgecomb

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A CATHOLIC doctor, who will speak at this year’s Brisbane March for Life on Saturday May 8, said he has witnessed the horror of working “in the biggest abortion clinic in Europe”.

“You just have to see the bodies, the piles of killed human bodies and you know there’s something very wrong going on,” Cairns general practitioner Dr Tim Coyle said describing how he and his wife Anne had worked for the UK’s National Health Service and been shaped by the experience.

“We saw the bodies, the newly killed bodies, turning their heads to gaze at us as they died.”

Abortion opponents: Dr Tim Coyle and his wife, Anne.

Dr Coyle is critical of Queensland’s abortion-to-birth laws passed in 2018, and a sharp increase in abortions since then.

While the number of surgical abortions increased slightly from 2018 to 2019, Cherish Life Queensland claims there has been a 58 per cent jump in abortions overall, based on Medicare Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme figures that showed a huge jump in the use of the prescribed abortion drugs mifepristone and misoprostol in the year after the new abortion laws were enacted.

“Simply we must keep protesting,” Dr Coyle said, adding that throughout history societies had adopted many bad practices that, over time, became normal.

“If we go back two thousand years, spectacles in the Colosseum were regarded as sport. 

“Public executions, crucifixions were regarded as entertainment. 

“Then in more recent times we have had the bad habits of slavery, exploitation of workers, exploitation of child and women workers and so on. 

“We are very much in danger of being habituated to abortion and accepting it as normal.”

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At the March for Life, Dr Coyle, president of Cherish Life’s Cairns branch will join high-profile speakers newly appointed Assistant Minister for Women, Senator Amanda Stoker, Member of Parliament George Christensen, the Australian Christian Lobby’s  Martyn Iles and Cherish Life Queensland’s executive director Teeshan Johnson.

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Dr Coyle is equally critical of the Queensland Labor government’s push to legalise euthanasia under the state’s proposed Voluntary Assisted Dying bill.

“It is deceitful to call it VAD as if it is voluntary,” he said. 

“Why not call it what it is – euthanasia. It will be killing people with a lethal cocktail.”

Dr Coyle said evidence showed that suicide had increased in jurisdictions where euthanasia has been legalised.  

“Suicides are up 14 per cent in Victoria – 175 euthanasia cases there in 2020– well above (Victorian Premier) Daniel Andrew’s predictions after legalisation of euthanasia,” he said.

“And if you add in the euthanasia suicides as well, there was a staggering 43 per cent increase.”

In the Netherlands where euthanasia was legalised in 2002, Dr Coyle said the suicide rate had risen by nearly 20 per cent between 2002 and 2015.

“Why should Queensland be different?” he said.

“Suicide will increase by 14 to 20 per cent in Queensland if Queensland Labor introduces and passes this bill.”

Brisbane’s March for Life on May 8 will start at Speakers’ Corner outside Parliament House, at 3pm.

Full details about the event can be found here.

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Mark is the joint winner of the Australian Variety Club 2000 Heart Award for his radio news reporting in East Timor, and has also won a Walkley award, Australia’s most-respected journalism award. Mark is the author of ‘Running Amok’ that chronicles his time as a foreign correspondent juggling news deadlines and the demands of being a husband and father. Mark is married with four children.

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