Dear NNS,

You want to limit or eliminate abortions. One way to cut down on abortions is to make contraceptives freely available and to instruct people in their use. If there are fewer unwanted pregnancies there will be fewer abortions. Do you favor making contraceptives freely available and instructing people in their use? If not, why not?

This thread was started to comment on an article by a man who wanted the right to harass women who were going to an abortion clinic. Do you think it is right to harass women going to an abortion clinic? I don't think it is right. This entire discussion is dominated by those who don't appear to give a stuff about the pregnant women.

Graham Preston is an anti-abortion activist.
He's been fined $3,000 and has been found to have been
within the no protest zone and faced 3 charges for his
protests in Hobart in 2014 and 2015.

The High Court upheld the laws in Victoria and Tasmania
to prohibit protests near clinics.

The Human Rights Law Centre welcomed the High Courts
decision saying that this decision acknowledged -
"the importance of privacy, safety, and equality,
in access to healthcare."

Women need not worry about being forced to run the
gauntlet of abuse to access medical care.

It is now against the law to attacking women and staff
outside of clinics.

Women and staff are no longer allowed
to be a target when they walk up to a clinic and they no longer need to carry the
heavy burden of being publicly attacked for seeking
medical care.

Mr Preston can continue to protest as much as he likes.
He will end up paying the consequences for his actions.
Rightly so!

David,

You are talking Third World stuff. There is no excuse for women in the West to be committing infanticide because contraception is not readily available.

I've never heard of Graham Preston; but it's interesting to learn that he is a victim of the feminazi, neo-Marxist hoodlums who deny freedom of speech and action to anyone except themselves. I respect him for his beliefs and his persistence in the face of the viciousness of the baby-killers and corrupt judiciary.

It's a very bad society that legislates for infanticide and legislates against objectors.

The High Court and the Human Rights Law Centre
feminazis?

Wow.

Just cause we get the monkey off our backs -
doesn't mean the circus has left town.

David f., Steele Redux and Banjo Patterson, Thank you for adding some sanity to this debate and allowing the others to see the individual rights of women are now front and centre of this alleged non-abusive debate, as is informed consent!

Only those with a Nazi mindset would judge it Ok for a woman to be brutally and forcibly impregnated by a knuckle-dragging neanderthal! The only kind of alleged human being who would consider that to be both ok and that the right of the unwanted fetus has superior rights than the unwilling incubator.

In case you hadn't noticed runner and cohort, Women are not only our superior fellow human beings with rights that include a right to education, religious freedom and when to become pregnant with a wanted child!

I had a Sister who was routinely raped in marriage, put up with that and a last pregnancy that nearly killed her. Due to her and bubs having incompatible tissue.

The baby was born barely alive and died of natural causes within hours of the birth! The end result has been an essential hysterectomy and a lifetime of heartfelt regret!

She finally left this Nazi nut case, when the animal started in on the kids!

Children born from incest or rape may go to a life, where they just want it ended ASAP!

Heard on one case not too long ago, where a baby was basically bashed to death in the living years, with as the coroner testified, virtually every bone in his sad little body broken!

Simply put, it would have been far kinder to have terminated this pregnancy before it became a human with a fully functioning heart and brain.

Ditto every other unwanted child condemned to a life of untenable violence, abuse and serial neglect!

Who among you would accept that for your son or daughter?

Well?
Alan B.

Dear Alan B,

It is very sobering what is occurring in the USA at the moment where the conservative religious ultra right have managed to outlaw abortion in Georgia where women face prison terms of 30 years for getting an abortion.

This is with fulsome support from the rightwing commentators like Ben Shapiro. Here he is getting called out by a BBC interviewer.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUP4uJto99w

In the end he spits the dummy and halts the interview, something he tends to do when he is challenged properly. He took exception to the interviewer calling the law a return to the dark ages which it clearly is.