Abortion Law in Victoria

I will be working through this flyer point by point over the next weeks.  If you don't believe me the references are in the flyer and can be looked up on Hansard.  It's a matter of public record.

http://www.lifevote.org.au/lifevote_flyer.pdf

I will present Victorian abortion law to you and explain why I think these laws are both anti-life and anti-woman.

In October 2008, the Victorian parliament voted to make abortions legal,
right up to the day of birth.  Any woman can have an abortion for any reason up until 24 weeks gestation.  After that the procedure has to be agreed on by two doctors after taking into account the woman's medical, physical, psychological and social circumstances.

If a woman loses a baby naturally during a pregnancy this is known as a miscarriage up until 20 weeks gestation.  After 20 weeks a baby that dies in utero is termed stillborn.  A stillborn baby, that has never taken a breath, is counted as a person.  They are issued with a birth certificate stating they were stillborn.  They are counted as a birth in the births, deaths and marriages database.  A 20 week old baby that dies before birth is recognised by the Victorian government as a person.

And yet this same baby can be aborted, have it's life ended, for any reason and it is termed abortion not murder.  A baby that is viable or could survive if born is slightly more protected.  After 24 weeks a pre-term baby has a 50% chance of survival, at 27 weeks it is 80% and from 29 weeks >90%. (
http://birth.com.au/Premature-baby/Survival-of-preterm-babies-gestation.aspx?p=2).

In 2007 there were 345 late term abortions in Victoria.  49% of these were done for psychosocial reasons and the remainder were because of a genetic problem of the baby.  54 of these babies survived the abortion and went on to die post-natally. 

Since this law was introduced in 2008 the Royal Womans' Hospital as gone from performing 1 late term abortion per fortnight to 3 per week. That's a 600% increase (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6AeFdCG4gEg).


1 in 4 pregnancies are ended by abortion.  One quarter of our children are being killed in the womb.  Less than 4% of abortions reported as being for medical reasons and less than 1% are because of rape.  I find these statistic horrifying.  Do you?

Then let the politicians know:

http://www.lifevote.org.au/










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