There is only one reason for a woman to have an abortion and that is where her life is genuinely in imminent and serious danger if the pregnancy continues. If the child is not viable and her condition can not be managed until both are able to survive then there is only one unfortunate option. All other reasons for abortion are spurious. Medical professionals have the responsibility to care for both mother and child. Gender selection is no less acceptable than the physical/psychological well being of the woma.

Whoever inspired Senator Madigan to make this stand should have a long ans serious think about why they did this. Those who are euphorically supporting him should do the same. If we expect our pro life politicians to make a stand for life then we should make sure that the reason and the outcome are clear and unequivocally advantageous to The Cause.

Sit down quietly and list reasons why so many people think abortion is acceptable. Try and imagine how gender selection could be wrapped up in any one,, or several, of those reasons. If a butcher is willing to perform an abortion and the women agrees to have one, then they will find a reason to do so. Passing this bill removes only one statistically insignificant reason. The Medicare card will still be swiped before the woman gets past the reception desk and a Medicare item number will be entered and the child will be killed in spite of what the newly enacted law might specify.

Our enemies are right when they say his is a thinly veiled attempt to raise the issue. What would happen if they decided to support the bill and it passed? Nothing! When the issue is raised again in the future for another reason then they are likely to ask why that reason was not important in 2013. In fact they would be entitled to ask.

To be continued.

Part 2

If Senator Madigan has a chance of holding the balance of power in the new Senate then this exercise will probably ruin that chance. It might result in even more anti life politicians being elected.

What about the private health funds? Do they insure for abortion? They cover procedures that Medicare does not. You might just find you have an increase in private health insurance because Medicare will not cover gender selection.

Senator, at the very least, please defer this bill until you determine what the prolife numbers in the new Senate will be.

Joan of Arc
I have just checked the current ACT federal representatives. There are two women, Kate Lundy and Gai Brodtmann. They are both Emily's Listers. The other is Andrew Leigh who is a strong supporter of the ACT Labor policy platform which includes abortion, euthanasia, same sex marriage, and other dubious issues.

assembly reps include Katy Gallagher, Yvette Berry, Mary Porter and Joy Burch. THey are all Emily's Listers. The four male government members are all avid supporters of ALP social policy and what they see as women's rights. If you are a member of the ACT ALP branch you pledge to support party policies and support the election of ALP candidates. Who are the pro life ALP candidates that you supported during the October 2012 Assembly election? Will you turn your back on ALP policy and support any pro life ACT candidates on September 14? Please surprise me and say "Yes".

Congratulations to Senator John Madigan for raising the selective abortion of female fetuses as an issue for the major parties to consider, and commendations to Sonia Courpis for her perceptive article.
Stephanie Peatling, Sydney Morning Herald columnist's ad hominem attack (27/2/13) on Senator Madigan as an "old, white man", was a sexist, racist and ageist comment that and would undoubtedly breach former Attorney General Nicola Roxon's draft anti-discrimination Bill.
However, I have news for Stephanie, I am a small, brown Asian female, the category First De Facto Tim Mathieson is so enthusiastic about, and I applaud Senator Madigan's effort to bring the tragedy of female feticide to centre front stage of the election campaign.
There are millions of missing women in India, my country of origin, because of gendercide, which has been happening ever since abortion was legalised and ultrasound became available to identify the sex of the baby in utero. Although sex-selected abortions are illegal in India, they still occur on a large scale. This is the crowning achievement of the old white feminists' agenda - the wholesale elimination of members of their own sex for no reason other than being female!
Even for women in developed countries, abortion is not a good idea - it increases the risk of breast cancer (losing the protective effect of a full-term pregnancy), increases the risk of premature birth (and cerebral palsy) in subsequent pregnancies, increases the risk of depression and suicide, and worst of all, women who have abortions realise 18 years later they have lost a friend and relative they would have loved and who would have loved them.
Endeavour Forum Inc., the organisation I represent, is holding an NGO "Parallel Event" on Gendercide at the UN Commission on the Status of Women in New York on Saturday, 9th March 2013. The main presenter is Reggie Littlejohn of Women's Rights Without Frontiers. Other speakers include US attorneys Samuel B. Casey and Allan Parker
Babette Francis

Any writer who supports abolition of abortion for any reason is to be commended for their courage. Comments drawn from opposing groups can be in bad taste. In keeping with the practice of aborting babies I guess.

So, the last card being played by those who support human child abortion is the 'desperate and shameless card' http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/postmodernconservative/2013/02/20/abortion-and-politics-big-morality-vs-small-decisions/ 'I know she's a very young person and I'm killing her but who cares?'

Who cares? well even those members of the abortion anti-culture whose imaginations and vision haven't been completely destroyed by callous indifference recognise it is demographic oblivion. http://ozconservative.blogspot.com.au/2013/03/hesitating-at-brink.html

Patrick Fagan's speech at a World Congress of Families, (in Sydney this year!) explaining how the anti-culture maintains despite the 'autonomous choice' to eliminate their own population and furiously extending the practices that lead to their negative fitness http://downloads.frc.org/EF/EF09H36.pdf

Basically they resort to theft through taxation as their numbers dwindle in order to fund their programs and culture wars, and indoctrinate as early as possible to help convert children and turn them against their families and the norms that help them flourish. Make them promiscuous and facilitate their first act of child murder as soon as possible.

Australians have absolutely had it. Forty years of this horror. No more! No more of this outrage! Look, politicians with even partially functioning intellects; faint hearted public intellectuals - more calculating than principled, are able to oppose child murder despite their excessive instinct for self preservation. At this late stage how much merit it will get them in heaven is another matter.

Even the Swiss recognise its either their country or child killing - they can't have both. They couch in the idiom that an insane materialistic society will listen to but still http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/swiss-bid-to-ban-abortion-for-economy/story-fn3dxix6-1226586457070

So no. I am not working extra this week to fund the killing of babies. And I am not supporting any political party that it silent about this abominating sacrilege that causes the desolation of whole societies.