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Dr Joanna Howe recently appeared on The Outsiders where she revealed that babies in Australia are being deliberately born alive before they are left to die because it’s “cheap, easier and quicker” way of killing a baby than having a normal abortion. Dr Howe said:

What astounds me is that Dr. Elisha Broom, a chief abortionist in this country, said that we do this on purpose. We deliberately induce these babies alive. That’s the method of abortion.

I had always thought, I think all of us had thought, this is an unintended consequence of abortion up to birth. And in reality what we now know is these aren’t failed abortions.

This is a deliberate strategy. A cheap, easier, quicker strategy to kill babies.

So they induce them alive. They leave them to die.

Now this was outlawed for baby calves in Australia in 2022. This was banned. We don’t even do this to baby cows yet we do it to human babies…

What has also become clear is that the Australian parliament not only endorses late-term abortion but has also given its tacit approval of infanticide. This is a national disgrace, and people should rightly be up in arms that such an injustice is occurring in our country. Dr Howe went on to say:

Maria Kovacic who is a senator from the Liberal Party. She got up two weeks ago in the Australian Senate and she justified this practice.

Essentially it was her and the other three Liberals—Simon Birmingham, Andrew Bragg and Jane Hume—all four of them siding with the abortion industry.

Instead of being like the dairy industry which owned up to the appalling treatment of little baby calves, these four Liberals, the Greens and Labor are siding with the abortion industry and covering up the plight of these very vulnerable Australian newborn babies.

Meanwhile, the mainstream media has been largely silent on the issue.

The murderous inaction of leaving newborn babies to die is not health care or reproductive rights. No amount of Orwellian Newspeak can deceive the public for what it really is.

After years of political agitation, William Wilberforce was instrumental in putting an end to the inhumane practice of slavery. Surely inducing pregnant women to subsequently kill their child is infinitely more barbaric.

And yet, the academic literature has itself clearly articulated what medical ethicists were planning to do. For instance, in 2011, Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva from the University of Melbourne, published a peer reviewed paper with the title, “After-birth abortion: why should the baby live?” The abstract itself made the following unambiguous admission:

Abortion is largely accepted even for reasons that so not have anything to do with the fetus’ health. By showing that (1) both foetuses and newborns do not have the same moral status as actual persons, (2) the fact that both are potential persons is morally irrelevant and (3) adoption is not always in the best interest of actual people, the authors argue that what we call ‘after-birth abortion’ (killing a newborn) should be permissible in all cases where abortion is, including cases where the newborn is not disabled.

The blood of tens of thousands of children cries from the stainless steel surgical tray and medical waste bin every year (See Gen. 4:10). What’s more, it is something which the LORD regards as unjust (Exod. 21:22-25). But how many of our politicians care or are even listening? As the Rev. Dr. Peter Barnes, the former Moderator General for the Presbyterian Church of Australia, recently wrote, ‘It takes a special kind of hard-heartedness to look upon the weak and the vulnerable, and not be moved by some kind of compassion.’ 

If you haven’t already done so, then please consider writing to your state and federal MP’s. This is literally an issue of life and death. And it’s time for Christians to speak up for those who cannot defend themselves.

– Mark Powell