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Human Rights Bureaucrats' Silence on Abortion

by Babette Francis, national and international coordinator of Endeavour Forum, Inc.

Veteran pro-life activist Babette Francis contrasts the relentless killing of Australian babies with the hypocritical virtue-signalling of our human rights bureaucrats.

It is difficult to get the actual number of the babies killed every year in abortions in Australia because much of the killing is done in private clinics or through the use of abortion pills. But a conservative estimate is that there are around 20,000 abortions annually in Victoria and somewhere between 80,000 and 100,000 unborn babies killed in Australia each year.

This dreadful slaughter of our most precious resource, our future generations, is presented as a "choice"; but it really is not a choice. For while abortion is subsidised by taxpayers, pregnancy-support services for mothers are not supported by either federal or state governments. Instead, they rely entirely on the meagre resources of pro-life volunteers.

Scientific advances in ultrasound imaging have exploded for once and for all the myths promoted by abortion lobbyists that the unborn baby – or "foetus", as they prefer to label it – is just a clump of cells or a "menstrual product".

You can see on this page a picture of a precious unborn child. However, here I mainly want to highlight the irony of how the money of hapless taxpayers is lavished on the promotion of "human rights" while the most fundamental human right of all – the basic right to life – is continually violated.

In October, the Australian Human Rights Commission (AHRC) is hosting what it describes as a once-in-a-decade conference in the sumptuous surrounds of Sydney's 5-star hotel, the Hyatt Regency.

Titled Free and Equal: An Australian Conversation on Human Rights, the conference will bring together under one roof prominent human rights advocates, such as UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Dr Michelle Bachelet, former Hawke Labor government minister the Hon. Susan Ryan AO, and chair of the Board of the Human Rights Law Centre the Hon. Catherine Branson AC QC.

Topics to be covered will include the promotion of social justice, the rights of indigenous people, diversity and inclusion, and, of course, action on climate change.

So far as I can see, the conference's list of eminent speakers, while it includes a number of individuals who identify as pro-abortion, does not include any pro-life advocates. Why this omission? How can the conference organisers describe their event as "an Australian conversation on human rights" when they exclude voices on behalf of the most vulnerable Australians – the unborn?

How can the AHRC describe itself as "the Free and Equal Team" when there is nothing free or equal for babies killed in the womb?

Just as jarring is its slogan: "Human rights: everyone, everywhere, everyday." Everyone? Only, it seems, so long as you don't count the unborn!

The no-expenses-spared human rights conference at Sydney's Hyatt Regency in October will, of course, by held at taxpayers' expense.

This is why, as a matter of urgency, Christians, and especially church-leaders, should write and complain to our Prime Minister Scott Morrison about this misuse of Australian taxpayers' money.

This article first appeared in Rev. Fred Nile's Family World News (August 2019).

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