Way to go, Mr Flynn! How to stretch an analogy to the point where it snaps under the strain of its own inconsequentiality!

"Tragically, unborn babies in Victoria are not afforded the same protection as our undersized fish."

Unborn babies? Undersized fish? Puhleeeeze!

Even the associated imagery is profoundly inconsistent.

"If you are caught taking or being in possession of an undersized snapper it will be returned to the water and you can expect an infringement notice."

The author presumably wishes me to conjecture what might happen, should fish and unborn babies be treated the same under the law, if I am caught in possession of an undersized foetus. Return it to the womb? Be slapped with an infringement notice?

Surely not?

It's all very well making a case - however clumsily and crassly - against abortion. He, and the marchers, are quite within their rights to do so. But it is only half the story, is it not?

What do Mr Flynn and his Australian Christian Lobby suggest should be the punishment? What sort of "infringement notice" does he and his organization believe is appropriate in these cases?

Apart, of course, from eternal damnation. That goes without saying. But in his view, should offenders be sent to jail? To the workhouse, perhaps? And what about the penalties for the procurer, at what level should they be prosecuted - murder? Manslaughter?

When making such drastic changes to our society, it is important to be in a position to evaluate all the consequences. It is certainly not enough to create draconian laws merely to indulge the sanctimony of the religious conservative.

Not a tragedy, it is evil from the pit of hell.

Global liberal elites helped themselves to countless billions expanding bureaucracies, casting themselves as planetary saviours, proposed the reorder of industrial civilisation for their ridiculous CAGW movement http://wattsupwiththat.com/2012/10/13/report-global-warming-stopped-16-years-ago/ - but organising to not subject the most innocent of the human family to lethal violence and instead welcoming them into life defeats us?

There is no way a child sacrificing society can survive, the tremors can be felt already. Everybody has to bind themselves to pro-human child groups and loose themselves from any works or from any silences that contribute to this mass murder.

We are most certainly living in a dark age and each individual, with God's help, has to find their way up out and into the light immediately.

Outstanding article highlighting the less than outstanding value our society places on the life of their own unborn human children. How sad the undersized fish have more protection than the unborn human being. The statistics listed are very revealing and extremely disturbing. The late term abortion law, needs to be revisited and withdrawn.

What value is placed on a human being? They have all faculties in place in the womb a few months after conception. A woman's body changes in response and you can feel the baby move within after a few months (a reason why abortion is carried out early to avoid the beauty of that feeling and create a cold, clinical approach to childbirth). How precious is this experience of carrying a baby to full term. Few relationships can compare to this time of bonding or that's how it should be. The law has become distorted in regards to what it protects. Maybe supporting each other has just become too bothersome. Easier to be kind to animals and trees so at least we feel like we are doing some good. But what value do we place on humanity? If none or even little, then what's the point? Change the law to abolish abortions. Raise your voice, Raise the standard!

Put your money where your mouth is guys. Next woman who wants to abort, tell her you'll look after her kid, or pay for their upbringing. Your missus could even be a surrogate!

I'm sure you don't mind a lot more tax dollars going to single mothers. That's what I always hear from conservatives, how much they love their tax dollars going to single mothers. They don't mind because it helps the children they always say. They cant wait to hand over the money!

What are your practical solutions to unwanted pregnancies. What further laws do you propose? Do you believe you can stop coat-hanger wire abortions? Child neglect and abuse? What are your contingency plans?

Houllie,
when you really think about it it's the anti-abortionists who are the main reason for women having abortions in back yards. As you said let the anti brigade come to the fore with supporting struggling mothers. Many of very young children live in unacceptable conditions because of the anti abortion lot.