Hi Candide,
Thanks for taking the time to explain your point - it is appreciated. I fear we are still on different "sides" of this debate but I appreciate your thoughts.

Like the author, I too was appalled when I read that newspaper article about sex selection. I cannot understand the hypocrisy of someone who says its perfectly ok for a woman to kill her unborn child for almost any reason (Including simple inconvenience) but then object when a woman wants to kill the child because its the wrong gender. Some people feel just as strongly about the importance of having a child of a particular gender as others do about their career prospects and how an ill timed pregnancy might affect them.
I was even more horrified to read that in Victoria any pregnancy can be terminated up to 24 weeks. A 24 week old foetus is viable outside the womb.
Its time we stopped killing unborn babies and starting valuing all human life.
And before anyone accuses me of being a religious nut, I am an atheist.

@David, I feel for the loss of your aunt and her baby. You comment that had she had access to an abortionist she could have lived...I wonder, had she had access to a Bible, perhaps both she and her precious child would have lived.

We hide behind medical terminology, in this instance, abortion...why not simply call it what it is....Murder...

This is a holocaust like no other and we as a nation are guilty. It has nothing to do with legitimate choice and everything to do with convenience.

Dear traceyv,

You wrote:@David, I feel for the loss of your aunt and her baby. You comment that had she had access to an abortionist she could have lived...I wonder, had she had access to a Bible, perhaps both she and her precious child would have lived.

We hide behind medical terminology, in this instance, abortion...why not simply call it what it is....Murder...

This is a holocaust like no other and we as a nation are guilty. It has nothing to do with legitimate choice and everything to do with convenience."

It was my cousin not my aunt, and I am sure she knew about the Bible. As far as I know there is nothing at all in the Bible that condemns abortion.

You cite the Bible and are apparently too ignorant to know what's in it. The Bible does not condemn abortion but does support the killing of the innocent in many places. The book of Joshua advocates genocide when the Lord commands you to do it. In fact God commands Abraham to kill not a fetus but his own son, and later in the New Testament subjects his own son to torture. I am too decent to follow that ugly book.

Abortion is not a holocaust. The holocaust was killing men, women and children and was inspired by the Christian hatred in the New Testament especially in the Gospel of John. The Nazis quoted the hate sermons of Martin Luther to inspire Christians to mass murder. Hitler said he was doing the Lord's work, and many Germans and others agreed with him.

Murder is a crime defined by law. Abortion is not murder under the Australian criminal code.

You say you feel for the loss of my 'aunt' then follow it by saying abortion is a convenience. You are an ignorant prejudiced fool who has no sympathy for the problems of a woman with an unwanted pregnancy.

Re Bill's short CV.
I remember Alan Austin pointed out that Bill has not given a lecture on ethics or anything else at an Australian "theology" school for many a long year.

Dear traceyv,

I am sorry I called you an ignorant prejudiced fool. What my cousin needed was not a book of ancient superstition but an abortionist.