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The Albanese government in Australia is now paying mothers for killing their healthy babies before they are born. Incredibly, this means that a mother who aborts her baby (after 20 weeks in her pregnancy and up until birth) can choose between a Stillbirth Parenting Payment of $4255 or a Paid Parental Leave Payment of $20,147!

Not even Marquis de Sade’s The 120 Days of Sodom, or Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World could have envisaged such a grotesque inversion of meaning. But such is the time in which we live.

Late-term abortion is an horrific and barbaric practice. Not only that, but it is a pre-mediated act of murder to take the life of another human being. As the pro-life lawyer Dr Joanna Howe explains:

Killing a baby after 20 weeks and up until birth entails injecting the baby’s heart with potassium chloride or digoxin and is followed by the early induction of labour of that now stillborn baby.  

This is a deliberate and wilful act to kill a healthy baby very late in pregnancy and deliver them stillborn. 

In South Australia, 80% of late-term abortions kill healthy babies.

Australia has a very generous policy for families to have a child. But the Albanese government is now extending that financial provision for their murder as well. Indeed, it not only supports but also encourages the termination of pregnancies after twenty weeks. As Dr Howe argues:

The Howard Government’s Baby Bonus was criticised because it incentivised teen pregnancies. This is far, far worse. Instead of receiving a $5000 cash payment for birthing a baby at full term, the Albanese Government is now incentivising late-term abortion in half the time.

One mid-wife relays the traumatic situation of assisting a woman to kill her child, only to be then told that she was looking forward to using the Stillborn Parenting Payment to fund her upcoming trip to Bali.

In the dystopian classic 1984, George Orwell coined the term ‘newspeak’, a fictional language for the totalitarian state of Oceania. By re-defining the meaning of words, the government could exert complete control over its citizens. Hence, the Ministry for Truth was the government agency responsible for propaganda, historical revisionism, and controlling information.  Alternatively, the Ministry of Love was responsible for perpetrating violence through fear, torture and brainwashing.

As we can all see now, Orwell was not only a brilliant novelist, but he was prescient in what he perceived would soon occur. But not even he could have envisioned a situation where a “baby bonus” would be paid to a mother for killing her baby or a Paid Parental Leave Payment be given after one decided to not actually be a mother. And the fact that the political party responsible for this perversion is called the ‘Labor’ Party just beggars belief.

Every follower of Jesus should be horrified that taxpayer monies are being used in this way. As with the horrific events recorded in Judges 19, it should make us all stop and re-consider our ways.

As a point of action, please sign the following petition which can found here, circulate it to friends, contact your local member, but most of all pray! If you are unsure what to ask then below might be of help.

Dear Heavenly Father, we praise you for the awesome God that you are. You are perfect in love, holiness and wisdom. Please forgive our nation of the horrendous practice of abortion which is currently occurring in our land.

We grieve, LORD, at the loss of human life and we ask for your mercy. Change our governing authorities that they would repent of the murderous evil which they have enshrined into law and even supported financially.

If they continue being hardhearted to your righteous law, then remove them from office and raise up new leaders, those who would fear and tremble before your Word and seek the glory of your Holy Name.

We ask all these things in and through Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, Amen.

– Mark Powell