
Just how “Rare” is Late-Term Abortion?
Many proponents of the NSW ‘Reproductive Rights’ Bill—which allows abortion up until birth—are defending the legislation by saying that late-term abortion is rare. But no one advocating for the practice refers to any statistics to back up the claim. And the reason why they probably don’t is because the reality tells a different story.
For example, below is a table containing the available data from Victoria:
Peta Credlin, writing in The Daily Telegraph, reports that there are over 80,000 abortions performed in Australia annually. Just stop and think about that for a second. Eighty-thousand pregnancies are terminated in this country alone. That’s getting close to the total number of Australians who were killed in WWI & WWII combined! Every. Single. Year.
Now, when you compare that massive figure to the 323 late-term abortions performed in Victoria during 2017 I guess you could say that it’s rare, speaking statistically. But just think of it like this. Even before Victoria legalised abortion in 2008, there was at least one late-term abortion being performed every business day. Does that still fit into your definition of ‘rare’?
Not only that, notice how many of those terminations were performed for merely ‘psychosocial’ reasons: 107 in 2015. 125 in 2016. And in 2017 it increased to 140. What qualifies as a ‘psychosocial’ reason? Well, that’s a good question because it’s hopelessly ill-defined. Which means that in practice it can involve anything at all that causes the mother serious distress.
But the most significant aspect that should really invoke public outrage is how many of these children were born alive (i.e. neonatal death). Because according to the records, from 2001 to 2017, this happened to six-hundred and forty-forty babies who were left to die. Which means that the legislation being put forward by Alex Greenwich—and facilitated by the Premier Gladys Berejiklian and her Deputy John Barilaro—also involves infanticide.
What sort of society have we become where we no longer offer medical assistance to those who are the most vulnerable? And why should NSW desperately imitate all of the other states in the name of ‘progressivism’? For as is already evident, late-term abortion is neither humane or rare.
3 Comments
Leave A Comment
Recent Articles
31 March 2023
9.2 MINS
“Sex is either consecration or desecration, with no neutral territory in between.” - Roger Scruton “Sex is in its pleasure, its joy, its “well being”—the image throughout the Old Testament of the beatific vision—the nearest we come to God.” - Dorothy Day [...]
31 March 2023
3.1 MINS
UNSW Professor Gigi Foster began warning against lockdowns in 2021. Her recent analysis of Australia's approach to COVID-19 yielded far worse results than she had imagined. While Australian governments are yet to provide the public with a cost-benefit analysis of their COVID-era lockdown policies, one [...]
31 March 2023
2.5 MINS
Every time someone apologises for telling the truth, the price of telling the truth rises. There will come a point soon, if we have not reached it already, where speaking the truth is simply too costly. And what becomes of a society in which people [...]
31 March 2023
3.4 MINS
K.I.S.S. (keep it simple, stupid…silly…sweetie)… your choice! I’m sure that you will have heard of this acronym. My friend Warwick Marsh shared another saying of similar ilk a while ago: ‘The main thing is the plain thing, and the plain thing is the main thing.’ [...]
31 March 2023
4.8 MINS
I recently wrote a piece on how we can view sin via the new book by Christopher Watkin. And I more recently looked at a chapter from a newish book on biblical doctrine by Paul David Tripp. The former book is Biblical Critical Theory, and Tripp’s [...]
30 March 2023
4.6 MINS
What are people to make of the Victorian Liberals now that they have rescued their leader, lawyer John Pesutto, from his self-inflicted crisis by blaming it all on Upper House member Moira Deeming and suspending her from the parliamentary party for nine months? Ms Deeming [...]
30 March 2023
1.6 MINS
The new misogyny is the old misogyny, but led by men in dresses. ‘Let Women Speak’, they said. Well here’s what happened when a diminutive woman tried to speak in Auckland on Saturday 25 March: Posie Parker was drowned out and attacked by a baying [...]
Brilliant Mark, thank you for such truthful passionate writing.
[…] Reproductive Health Care Reform; transgenderism; the absent care of babies “accidentally” born alive and left to die; and freedom of […]
[…] rejecting pornography, abortion, eroticism, prostitution, and […]