Please sign the Petition: Abortion on Demand (Up to 9 Months) – we have up to 18 April, so please circulate to Tasmanian citizens.
This new Petition is required because of today’s tabled changes to the previously publicised Bill. So if you have signed the previous Petition, Late-term Abortion,(which can still be signed up to 15 April) you still need to sign this one Abortion on Demand (Up to 9 Months) as well. Happy days!
The Petition says:
TO: The Honourable the Speaker and Members of the House of Assembly
Tasmanian citizens draw to the attention of the House:
Despite media reports of Abortion law Backdown the Petition rightly notes, that the Minister for Children has tabled a bill which would allow:
1. Abortion-on-demand of unborn babies up to the age of 16 weeks from conception; and
2. Abortion-on-demand of unborn babies up to 9 months with extensive scope for justification compared to current law.
Your petitioners are earnest and sincere in our belief that such changes are unacceptable and ignore the precious value of the lives of unborn babies.
Your petitioners request the House to:
• recognise the dignity and humanity of unborn babies;
• understand that the Bill effectively provides ‘abortion on demand’ at any stage of pregnancy, which is unacceptable to people who value the humanity and sanctity of the unborn boy or girl;
• recognise the lack of credibility in the drafting, where the stage of pregnancy requiring no justification, has been lowered without explanation;
• recognise that the late term provision which refers to “current and future physical, psychological, economic and circumstances” is particularly offensive, reducing babies’ lives to an arbitrary economic inconvenience causing the extreme outcome of abortion on demand at any stage of pregnancy;
• introduce local pregnancy support services which assist mothers from all social and economic circumstances, so that the lives of unborn girls and boys can be preserved from abortion’s irreversible fatality; and
• reject the legislation tabled by the Minister for Children creating ‘abortion on demand’ provisions for all stages of pregnancy.Your petitioners implore you to act with wisdom and courage to protect all in our society.
The Petition: Abortion on Demand (Up to 9 Months) & Abortion Tas: Anglican Submission
I fully support this petition. We must place above all else the sanctity of life, and defend those who cannot defend themselves…the unborn.
I have talked with many women before and after they have made the tough decision to have an abortion. None of them have chosen lightly. They have thought hard and were sure it was the best choice for that time and circumstance in their life. Women need and deserve to make their own fertility decision – others need to keep their judgmental opinions to them selves – it is not their body and their future on the line.
A woman’s body is hers to do with as she pleases until she falls pregnant,then there are two seperate beings
who are entitled to have their rights protected by law.
Hope we are not too late for the petition. We know at least 3 beautiful people who were to be possibly aborted and what a loss that would have been and how much poorer we!