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The politics of abortion : Comments
By Bernard Gaynor, published 23/5/2014This week's report that Family First will now look at withholding preferences from the Victorian Liberal Party makes perfect sense and is one that I applaud.
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It's a cruel injustice that unborn children are routinely aborted, utterly defenceless victims of current ideological battles between political parties.
Procured abortion is lethal human rights abuse. The legality of child abuse is never to be decided legitimately by opinion polls or by government majority votes.
There is no poll, no democratic vote, no government 'numbers' and no domestic Court decision that can take away the child's right, under international human rights law, to 'special safeguards and care including appropriate legal protection before as well as after birth'. (See UN Declaration on the Rights of the Child and UN Convention on the Rights of the Child )