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*Update: The bill passed the lower house, 65 votes to 20, on Wednesday, 14 May.

On Wednesday, 7 May, up to 10,000 people attended a public rally outside the NSW Parliament House to oppose a Greens’ abortion bill. This was an outstanding achievement from the pro-life movement.

Present and former politicians, including former Prime Minister Tony Abbott, MP Tanya Davies, and MLC John Ruddick, spoke against the bill.

Multiple Church leaders, including Archbishop Anthony Fisher, Catholic Archbishop of Sydney, also spoke up for the unborn and women.

Live Footage and Interviews from the Sydney Rally

Independent media journalist Hannah Murfy, herself pro-life, interviewed multiple people at the Rally, including the Canberra Declaration’s Alison and Warwick Marsh.

Hannah reveals that at the time of the rally, she was a couple of months pregnant.

Tragically, two days later, Hannah and her husband lost their baby. “I don’t want this to take away from the content in this video”, she says. “If anything I want it to strengthen the message that humans are valuable and this horrible experience has only strengthened my conviction in this (pro-life) belief.

“You could you could say we are grieving because our baby was wanted. Therefore we assigned value to the baby. But that’s not true. Value isn’t assigned –  it is God-given, therefore objective, and very real at the moment of conception.

“This objective value doesn’t change based on things like age size location or the opinions of those who hold more power over the baby.

“As as a society, we seem to be much more comfortable grieving unwanted miscarriages over wanted abortion. But the truth is, as much as we don’t want to admit it, a miscarried baby and an aborted baby hold the same value and therefore both deserve the same amount of grief, no matter the circumstances.”

The Greens’ Bill

As originally tabled in the NSW Legislative Council (Upper House), the Greens’ bill sought to:

• Lead to even more victims of abortion, both children and women.
• Force hospitals and doctors, nurses and midwives opposed to abortion for medical or ethical reasons to violate their conscience and facilitate abortion at any stage, for any reason.
• Close Christian hospitals, or any hospital, that refuses to do abortions.
• Endanger women by allowing nurses and midwives to prescribe dangerous medical (drug) abortions. The medical abortion drug mifepristone can lead to serious health outcomes such as sepsis, infection, and haemorrhage. Women may require emergency surgery to avoid life-threatening complications.
• Allow nurses and midwives to perform surgical abortions up to 22 weeks’ gestation.
• Cause health professionals opposed to abortion to leave their jobs, which would cripple NSW’s already strained health care system.

Some Pro-Life Victories

Thankfully, after debate in the Legislative Council, some parts of the bill have been removed.

This is a substantial victory for doctors, nurses, midwives, babies, women and hospitals. However, while the bill is still live and being debated, it is always possible that these removed aspects could be put back in.

But as it stands, the following has been removed from the bill:

• The ability for the Minister for Health to force hospitals to perform abortions or be denied funding (therefore forcing them to close).
• Forcing doctors and midwives to facilitate abortions even if they know it is murder.
• Removing the need for record-keeping on abortions, so that accurate NSW statistics are available.

These are significant victories. We congratulate the brave and dedicated parliamentarians who have successfully removed these terrible Greens’ proposals.

The Greens will always seek to promote abortion and punish those who disagree with it. As Tony Abbott said in the interview below, this bill was really about cancelling Christianity from public life.

The Greens are on public record that they want Christian schools (and all independent schools) closed for good. In addition, churches must toe the line on the Greens’ views about sexuality and gender, or face penalties. The Greens are somewhat content for Christians to exist, but Christianity must have no place in secular society’s public square. In practice, Christianity must practically look little different from the religion of secular humanism.

All to which Hannah Murfy says, “Obviously, never vote for the Greens.”

What Remains of the Greens’ Abortion Bill

The worst part of the bill remains: expanding abortion access by allowing nurses and midwives to perform medical (drug) and surgical abortions. (For more information about medical and surgical abortions, please see here.)

If this bill passes, more babies will die. This is a tragedy and a gross violation of those babies’ right to life.

Vote on the Bill: From Tuesday 13 May

The Greens’ bill has passed the Upper House. It will now be introduced into the Lower House.

The Lower House is expected to vote on the bill (most likely) after lunch today (Tuesday, 13 May).

Urgent: Contact Your Local MP

Call your local MP today and urge them to vote against this bill, which is evil at its core. The bill will allow nurses and midwives to dispense abortion drugs that kill a baby and can seriously (and if untreated, lethally) harm women.

You can use the Parliamentary switchboard number 02 9230 2319 to be directed to your local MP.

Or, click the orange button below to find the phone numbers (or email addresses if you cannot call) of all NSW MPs.

We cannot thank you enough for your action and prayers.

The bill is a conscience vote for all MPs. That means any Labor, Liberal, National (or any other party) MP could vote for or against it. Every MP must receive the message that this bill must not pass.

For more information about the bill, please see the following Daily Declaration articles:

• “Greens Push NSW Abortion Bill Amid Warnings Over Religious Freedom“
• “An Open Letter to Chris Minns: Breaking Your Promises to Protect Unborn Children“.
• “5,000 Rally Against the Radical NSW Greens Abortion Bill“
• “NSW Premier Must Block Radical Greens’ Abortion Bill“
• “NSW Greens Want Midwives to Carry Out Abortions in a Bill that Destroys Protections for Dissent“
• “NSW Abortion Bill: Making Doctors Complicit in Wrongdoing“
• “NSW Greens’ Abortion Hypocrisy on Display“

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