ABORTION will be available on-demand in New South Wales for women up to 22-weeks pregnant and available beyond that up to birth with the approval of two doctors with the passage of the NSW Abortion Law Reform Bill 2019 today. The controversial abortion bill passed in the NSW Upper House 26-14, and was handed to the Lower House where it ... Read More »
PRO-life group Cherish Life has vowed to keep fighting for the rights of the unborn, a year after pro-abortion laws were passed in Queensland. The Queensland-based advocacy group will hold its annual March for Life in Brisbane on October 12, and will observe a minute’s silence “as a mark of respect to the little babies who have been killed under ... Read More »
AUSTRALIAN state legislatures are falling like dominoes to radical abortion laws, with New South Wales the next state tabling abortion-to-birth legislation. The Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill 2019 passed the NSW lower house 59-31 just before 11pm on August 8. It still has to pass the state senate. Sydney Archbishop Anthony Fisher condemned the introduction of the bill, which would ... Read More »
A LEADING pro-life campaigner believes there is a strong backlash against Queensland’s abortion law that came into force eight months ago. Emily’s Voice chief executive officer Paul O’Rourke said public sentiment was running deep against abortion and had prompted his pro-life organisation to start a national advertising campaign of billboards and buses. After the Termination of Pregnancy Bill became law ... Read More »
CATHOLIC Women’s League has been busy – and has been for decades. The state council of Catholic Women’s League State of Queensland met in Mackay for their Annual General Meeting followed by their Council Meeting. Catholic Women’s League Queensland president Veronica Box said with almost 700 members CWL Queensland was a force for good in the Church and in society. ... Read More »
PRO-LIFE group, Cherish Life has stood by a pledge to publicly name and shame Queensland state members of parliament who voted to legalise abortion – part of a wider campaign to oust them from office. The group has released a pamphlet that identifies each MP and how they voted on the controversial Termination of Pregnancy Bill passed by 50 to ... Read More »
BRISBANE Archbishop Mark Coleridge has questioned the integrity of the “so-called ‘conscience’ vote” when the Queensland Parliament voted to decriminalise abortion in a late-night extended session. The bill, which passed Queensland Parliament by 50 votes to 41 on October 17, allows for abortions up to 22 weeks, and beyond 22 weeks with the approval of a second doctor. These ... Read More »
THOUSANDS of people joined the March for Life through Brisbane’s CBD last weekend to protest the Queensland Government’s move to legalise abortion. Organisers estimate 4000 marched down George Street, many dressed in white, chanting “life, life, life” and “Pro-life, pro-woman”. “God’s law doesn’t endorse taking away life. This is like murder,” Kevin Turne, who had travelled from Dalby on the ... Read More »
LABOR has introduced laws aimed at legalising abortion into the Queensland parliament today (August 22), despite latest polling that shows majority opposition among voters. If passed, the laws, would allow women to have an abortion up to 22 weeks, or up until birth if approved by two doctors. Also, “exclusion zones” of 150 metres would be in place around abortion ... Read More »
The Catholic Leader Keeping Faith with You
