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A Queensland case of a baby left to die re-ignites abortion debate, urging Christians and conservatives to confront late-term terminations, hold politicians accountable, and attend a united pro-life rally at Parliament.

A medical professional in the Queensland “Health” system has taken a heartbreaking photo that should deeply grieve and anger a normal person. It’s not okay to look away from the betrayal of justice happening in our name and funded by public money in every state of this Commonwealth.

Baby Samuel was at just 16 weeks gestation when his mother, God forgive her, recently decided to have an abortion. He was born alive, and left to die alone, sucking his thumb.

In Queensland, the deliberate termination of healthy babies in utero happens about 33 times every day for any reason — there are no good reasons. This is happening under the Liberal/National Party government: allegedly representative of Christians and conservatives, allegedly full of pro-life and Christian MPs.

If our “conservative” MPs can’t convince the voting public of the humanity of preborn people and the injustice of killing them with taxpayer funding, what use are they at all? That’s gross incompetence and cowardice.

I’m sometimes told we lose public moral battles like marriage, euthanasia and abortion because we’re not sophisticated or subtle enough with language, and Christians are too easily dismissed as “fringe radicals”.

Let me be clear — this is child sacrifice: medicalised, normalised, subsidised and industrialised, but nevertheless as barbaric and brutal as ancient pagans putting their screaming babies in the searing hot hands of bronze idols with prayers for prosperity.

Every new day that our politicians turn their face away from the preventable, unjust suffering of innocent living humans like baby Samuel is another day they collaborate with abortionists, their hands also drenched in blood.

Yet every new day is another God-given chance to finally offer their careers “perhaps for such a time as this”, as a pleasing and acceptable sacrifice in His service, in the righteous cause of justice and mercy for the frailest, most vulnerable people.

While we can certainly judge their failures, we, Christian and conservative voters, must simultaneously exhort their repentance and reformation, and offer as much support for renewed courage as we do electoral punishment for turning their faces away from the greatest moral tragedy of this age.

There is more than politics available to Christians as a solution, but in a liberal democracy like Australia, politically intervening in injustice is not optional — it’s morally compulsory.

Here’s What You Can Do to Help

Will you interrupt your routines and choose some inconvenience next Monday, 9 February, to join me in a Public Gathering for Queensland Babies night outside the Queensland Parliament?

Queensland has a marvellous unity between the six biggest pro-life Christian ministries — ACL, CAS, Cherish Life, FamilyVoice, Answers In Genesis and the Australian Family Association. Together with Dr Joanna Howe and Pro-life Health Professionals Australia, we are convening a mega rally at Speakers’ Corner from 5:30-6:30pm Monday — while politicians are attending Parliament.

CLICK HERE now to let us know you’ll be there to bear witness to the Qld government that baby Samuel’s life matters to God, as does every baby killed every day by the government and taxpayers in Queensland, and they matter to us. We the Church will not turn our faces away. We will not be silent.

Will you please do whatever it takes to be there? This is a watershed moment in the abortion debate in Queensland. I have been to many such rallies, and can assure you it’s safe, positive and suitable for children of all ages.

Please be in prayer this week for the Qld Life Coalition, Joanna Howe and our pro-life MPs. Do not underestimate the spiritual battle raging over us all as heavenly light battles demonic darkness.

Finally, please share my short videos on YouTube, Facebook, Instagram and X this week to build attention and awareness of this moral emergency and the epidemic of injustice being suffered like that of baby Samuel’s.

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Republished with thanks to Dave Pellowe. Image courtesy of Adobe.