A Sad Day for Australian Babies
December 7th, 2006 · Posted in Uncategorized · 9 CommentsThe Australian parliament now allows human life to be created only to be destroyed in the name of ‘science’. What I found even more disturbing is in the run-down of how the MPs voted.
By my count 22 female MPs voted in favour of killing babies, and only 7 voted against. The men were split exactly down the middle – 37* for, 37 against.
It is truly a sad day when women, who care for their young were so overwhelmingly in favour of creating babies only to kill them.
RodeoClown: loves babies more than most female MPs.
*I’m including the one MP who abstained from voting, which in my mind is a vote for.
December 7th, 2006 at 4:55 pm
Worse than that is that women voted for something that has to exploit women to succeed.
There are great risks to women who go through the treatment required to abstract many eggs. It has only taken the UK 2 years to allow organisations to offer financial incentive to women to donate eggs. With Australia’s much lower population I can’t see it taking longer than this.
That women would vote for something that will exploit other women is just disgraceful. I guess they won’t be put in that position because they have money already.
December 7th, 2006 at 6:48 pm
Rodeo, I completely agree – a vote to abstain is a vote for.
December 8th, 2006 at 12:41 am
I am very sad about this. Our world is a very sick place!
December 8th, 2006 at 8:16 am
I have heard that Erin, I have heard they are offering women who are want children but can’t naturally have them discount for their IVF treatment if they donate some of the eggs to ‘research’ or should I say ‘killing innocent lives’. This makes me so sad and very mad, I can’t believe we have even entertained this idea let alone allowed it through parliament.
December 8th, 2006 at 8:17 am
can you fix up my typos Rodeo?
December 8th, 2006 at 8:27 am
Done.
If you are using Firefox now, get this Australian dictionary add-on, which will spell check correctly in all text boxes (including the one you wrote this in).
December 8th, 2006 at 12:20 pm
It’s the day after and I still feel like I’ve been hit in the guts. We have taken one more step in the wrong direction.
December 9th, 2006 at 12:15 pm
I read something yesterday in the SMH about them being able to test drugs a lot faster now because of this.
It sickens me that people who get upset about testing drugs on animals don’t seem to mind this at all. I just can’t seem to throw off how sad and distressing I find this whole thing.
December 9th, 2006 at 12:16 pm
Oh – for those who didn’t see it Claire Smith had an excellent letter in the SMH yesterday about conscience votes. I haven’t read the letters yet today, but can’t imagine there wouldn’t have been ‘feedback’ on her comment.