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Convicted as a criminal for offering help to expecting mothers at abortion facilities, Kathy Clubb is an inspiration for us all.

As I grow older, I’m starting to discover my different passions and interests. Invariably, my mind goes to the schoolroom, where millions of years, climate change, and confusion are taught. But I don’t stop there. When I look back a few more years, before those innocent children are being brainwashed into socialism, I see them in the safest yet most vulnerable place they will ever be: the womb.

The Conversation that Changed Kathy Clubb’s Life

“Are you sure it’s not enough just to stand there and pray?”

Kathy hit the send button on her phone and waited for her friend’s response. It came immediately.

“Do you really believe babies are being killed there?”

Kathy picked up the phone and wrote her answer.

“Yes, of course I believe babies are being killed there.”

In a matter of seconds, her friend’s reply appeared on the screen.

“Well then you need to try to stop that. You need to be reaching out to these women, Kathy.”

That one small interaction changed the course of Kathy Clubb’s life. She joined a group of life advocates that supports women facing crisis pregnancies, called the Helpers of God’s Precious Infants. For years, the group ministered outside abortion clinics, providing another option for women who had gone looking for an abortion.

The Helpers offered to do whatever was necessary to support the women. They even went as far as paying hospital expenses for the birth of the baby. As a consequence of their selfless work, over 300 lives were saved who otherwise would have been killed.

Kathy Clubb, the ‘Criminal’

The Helpers’ work did not go unnoticed, including by detractors. To this day it still baffles me why people would try to stop such wonderful work. Yet one thing is for certain — Fiona Patton did. As a consequence of The Helpers’ life-changing work, Ms Patton introduced a devastating piece of legislation making it illegal to communicate with women on the subject of abortion within 150 metres of an abortion clinic.

However, Kathy and the other pro-life advocates knew the law had to be challenged. They discussed their options, sought legal advice, and Kathy volunteered to breach the exclusion zone.

One cold August morning, Kathy was praying outside an abortion clinic when she spotted a couple walking towards the doors. Approaching them, Kathy did what she had done many times before: she simply offered her help and support. Shaking their heads, the couple rejected her offer and continued their stride though the clinic doors. For Kathy, this was nothing unusual.

Unknown to her, however, this was the last time she would freely offer support to a woman in need. As Kathy turned, she was met by the stern faces of two policemen. Behind them were three more detectives. They asked her to move on and when she refused, they arrested her.

Kathy Clubb’s Court Case

The Australian Christian Lobby set up funding for Kathy’s case. It began in the Magistrate’s Court, then was accepted by the High Court for a constitutional challenge to the exclusion zone law. This was the motive behind Kathy agreeing to breach the zone: to take her case to the High Court. Unfortunately, the legal challenge failed and the exclusion zone law was upheld.

During the Magistrate’s Court proceedings, the police couldn’t prove the topic of conversation between Kathy and the couple. Even so, she was convicted. Kathy now must live the rest of her life with a criminal record for the terrible “crime” of saving innocent lives.

In a video about her case, Kathy exclaimed, “This is the biggest human rights abuse of our time.” Indeed, social justice begins in the womb and as soon as that is disputed, human rights are dead.

Kathy Clubb is an inspiration for us all. Although it may come as a terrible shock, what happened to Kathy is nothing new. She came. She saw. She almost conquered. But She doesn’t regret it. She has even said, “It’s a privilege for me to have a conviction for doing the right thing.”

Would you be willing to face criminal charges in the hope of challenging an unjust law? Kathy did, and I hope I would too.

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