(Tom: I am SO pleased they are doing this instead of defending our wildlife and forests from logging, our rivers, dams and aquifers from fracking, our air from the pollotion caused by coal fired power plants, our farmers from the effects of too little advance planning and water mismanagement and corruption, our political system from the corruption from corporate donations, the legal system from the usurpation of our right to trial by jury, the coerced medication of children with vaccines and all of us with fluoride contrary to the Nuremberg Code… …the list is long about what an honest government working for the benefit of its people incontrvertibly SHOULD be doing instead of legalising murder of the helpless.)
Pro-abortion politicians celebrated Thursday after the Australian state of New South Wales legalized the killing of unborn babies up to birth.
The controversial law allows abortions for any reason up to 22 weeks and up to birth with the permission of two doctors and a hospital committee, The Independent reports.
Ignoring strong opposition from New South Wales citizens, lawmakers in the upper and lower house quickly passed the bill with very few amendments. According to The Sydney Morning Herald, MP Alex Greenwich, the lead sponsor of the bill, and other pro-abortion politicians cheered and hugged each other in celebration Thursday after they voted to strip away basically all protections for babies in the womb.
“Abortion has been decriminalised in NSW. I am sorry this has taken so long,” Greenwich said after the vote.
But Margaret Tighe, president of Right to Life Australia, mourned the news.
“There should be no cause for jubilation in New South Wales today when the death knell has been sounded in the New South Wales Parliament for unborn children in the womb – abortion now being allowed up till birth,” she said.
Tighe said the law does not even give babies who are born alive after botched abortions full protections. She expressed concerns about inadequate conscience rights protections for pro-life medical professionals as well.
“We are proud of the many members of the Parliament of New South Wales who were unwavering in their stand for life and posed amendment after amendment to contain this horrendous bill,” she said.
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Pro-abortion lawmakers rejected a long list of amendments, including measures to ban the sales of aborted baby body parts and to require pain medication for unborn babies capable of feeling pain, ABC News reports. They did pass amendments to protect unborn babies from sex-selection abortions and to add at least some conscience protections for pro-life medical workers.
Abortion activists tried to ram through the radical pro-abortion bill quickly. The bill passed the lower house of parliament in August, just days after pro-abortion lawmakers introduced it.