5,000 Rally Against the Radical NSW Greens Abortion Bill
Yesterday evening, I joined about 5,000 demonstrators outside the New South Wales Parliament, Macquarie Street, Sydney. It was noisy, uplifting and empowering.
It was organised by Dr Joanna Howe. She is a little firebrand anti-abortion activist. When the South Australian parliament passed new laws to introduce abortion up to birth, Joanna, a South Australian, felt compelled to devote her life to ending abortion, based on the conviction that abortion harms women and is the most horrific human rights abuse in Australia today. She has channels on Instagram, TikTok, Facebook and YouTube. If you are not familiar with her, please take a look and support her work.
Joanna wrote:
I am flying to Sydney on Wednesday to lead a rally against the radical Greens bill that will force the closure of Christian hospitals and force all doctors (including prolife ones) to be involved in abortion.
If we don’t stop this bill in NSW, it will be rolled out nationally via Labor and The Greens.
This is like Victoria in 2008. If we’d stopped abortion up to birth being introduced in the Victorian parliament in that year, we wouldn’t be here today, living in a country where it is a legal to kill a child in-utero through all 40 weeks of pregnancy.
Two young women calling for women’s rights.
As part of Joanna’s campaign, she wrote an open letter to Premier Chris Minns. An extract:
We are asking for your urgent intervention as Premier to stop the passage of the Abortion Law Reform (Healthcare Access) Bill 2025. This Bill significantly widens ministerial power and has the potential to force the closure of Catholic hospitals who do not want to perform abortion because it ends the life of an innocent human child in-utero. This will reduce healthcare for everyone as it will place even greater pressure on the hospital system in NSW.
The Bill also greatly erodes freedom of conscience protections for individual health workers. It will force them to actively refer for abortion, which means making them morally complicit in a procedure that they are vehemently opposed to. This will lead to an exodus of Christian and other health workers from a sector that is already experiencing crippling shortages.
Joanna put out a great YouTube video yesterday:
I urge everyone to go to Joanna’s website and take a stand, following the steps she has set out. She ended her rally by calling on all of us to personally talk with at least five people about this bill, family, friends, letterbox drops and more. Let’s get the word out — when others see our passion, they can’t brush it under the carpet.
Groundswell
Joshua Rowe, the NSW Director of the Australian Christian Lobby, was one of the speakers. These are some of his points:
The NSW Greens have introduced a bill into parliament to increase access to abortion. But how do you increase access when it’s already available up until birth?
They want to do this by increasing its geographic availability with legislation that puts pressure onto conscientious objectors — healthcare workers who object to being associated with any part of the process of abortion because of their moral beliefs or convictions.
ACL have launched a campaign against this bill and urge people to go to their website and write to their member of parliament, urging them to reject this bill.
There were numerous other speakers, each introduced by Joanna. The setting for the demonstration was brilliant. We filled the pavement outside the Parliament House fence and occupied a quarter of the width of the road.
Rachael Wong, Chief Executive Officer of Women’s Forum Australia.
Our chants and speeches would most certainly have been heard inside parliament. We were literally calling on Premier Chris Minns to show leadership of his party and the people of NSW and rule this bill out of court. It was quite evident that even though we have a good number of supporters, evinced by the number of Members of Parliament who lined the fence inside, the political agenda is still being driven by the Greens!
What a condemnation of our democracy. Neither major party seem to achieve anything. They seem to be either sitting on their hands or applauding the Greens as they drown our dreams and values like a tsunami.
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God help us! God bless Dr Jo!!!!
Great article Jim!!!!!
Wonderful to wake up to this news of 5,000 New South Welshmen rallying in defense of doctors and nurses right to exercise their freedom of conscience to abstain from involvement in abortions . When I began my nursing training many years ago, I would never have believed it would come to this…freedom of conscience was sacrosanct ….remember the Vietnam war protests anyone ? I suggest there are out there still, participants in those freedom of conscience marches, who now oppose the freedom of conscience for doctors, nurses and other allied health professionals. to opt out of today’s killings. Interesting to know how many are now in our parliaments ?
Denise, how short our memory! It is so sad, that the battle lines are drawn today on ‘conscience’ and not on the ‘mass slaughter of the innocent’. The battle will turn.
Thankyou Jim!
Thank you Jim, so glad you were able to attend and give us a report. It is unimaginable that we are in a fight for the innocent and that our culture has so little regard for the blessing of children. I tremble at the judgement of God on the killing of His little ones.
Joy, I echo your feelings, but the tragic point about this bill is that we are not ‘actually’ demonstrating against the ‘killing of the innocents’, we are seeking to reject a bill that will remove freedom of speech and freedom of conscience. The battle has come as far as this. When we get our freedoms back, then we can go back to fighting for the innocents.
Thanks for this report Jim.
Seems our pro-Life battle is gathering momentum,scaring the Pro -Abortion people . Someone has been constantly emailing me to tell me what a “dreadful “person Dr Joanna Howe is, thinking they could convince me it is “Health Care “. My reply was the joy many UK mothers + their adopted children who are found + reunited on TV many decades later, proves that ,fortunately .they were not aborted!We must win this battle because it is just another nail in the coffin of our Right to Freedom of Choice in what is fast turning Australia into a State where the people live in tyranny. Our politicians of the Right are really Leftists.Vote GreenIslamists last !
Continue to be the flickering light in this dark world. No matter how dark it may seem, and how lacking the leadership of our government is. Each small light combining together dispells an ever increasing amount of the darkness, for nothing is impossible for our God.
God’s blessings be upon all who attended the protest, and who prayed and will continue to pray that this bill is soundly defeated.
If the media are not doing their job reporting on this, why don’t we protest outside the ABC, Channels 7,9 and 10, the SMH and the Australian? That might at least get some coverage
Simon, thank you for your call. I think that, for me, protesting in the proximity of the perpetrator, namely, The Greens, is the best strategic approach, alongside spiritual warfare.