Still the West’s most extreme abortion law reform
Written by Mathew, Posted in Pro-Life / Abortion
Last October I wrote a piece (“Pro-choice is pro-life” … or so the logic goes) following my involvement in a peaceful march through the Melbourne CBD, protesting the Victorian Abortion Law Reform Act (2008) [1] that legislated perhaps the most permissive laws on abortion in the Western world. The 2008 bill that was voted into law not only decriminalised abortion up to the day of birth, but permits partial-birth abortion and makes no provision for the medical care of infants born alive following unsuccessful abortive procedures – such infants can simply be left to die. Further, the bill denies medical practitioners any right of conscientious objection, mandating by law that all qualified medical practitioners, registered nurses and pharmacists must be complicit in the act of abortion. All proposed amendments to the bill were rejected by the Victorian Parliament. Such proposed amendments included, but were not limited to: 1). mandating medical [...]
