The Government overturned a ban on abortion aid funding.

Two questions about this.

Will my hard-earned dollars now go to pay for abortions?

And - How do religious Labor and Greens voters support a party that thinks aborting a fetus is the right thing to do?

There are a couple of points,

from a taxpayers point of view is the money better spent supporting new mouths? Indefinately?

Presumably abortions will be available to those who don't actually want more children! Some of the same christian groups oppose contraception, which gets the people to this position in the first place.

One wonders how strong the religious vote is in our society, and by how much it dwindles each year.

Last time I checked the poll in The Australian, 62% of people supported the move, 33% were opposed with the remainder being neutral. And the Australian is usually perceived, at least, as being more on the conservative side.

So it seems most people do think it's sensible to not discriminate in our aid dollars. TruthNow's no stranger to trolling, I sincerely doubt he or she will return to back up the initial post, but it's easy to tear apart anyway.

The reality of the decision is that aid dollars can support organisations who perform abortions. It's not specifically about that - many, indeed, most practical organisations realise that there will be occasions when abortions are necessary. These organisations were barred from receiving aid dollars in the past.

Also, there is the fact that in third world countries, women have very little power. Rape is more common and the women often have no decision over contraception. Thus, an impoverished family is made larger as the mother sometimes has no choice.

Thankfully, that's been changed. Of course, individuals like TruthNow rarely like to look at the bigger picture.

Luckily, most Australians don't agree with him/her.

Dear TRUTHNOW78,

It is possible to be religious and support the right of a woman to have an abortion. You seem to have the ethnocentric idea that all religious people have to agree on the question of abortion. All religious people do not oppose abortion, and all non-religious people do not support abortion. Life is not that simple.

Well good on Stephen Smith of the ALP for bringing about these
changes! They are years overdue and the religious lobby
within the Libs clearly did not care too much about the
68'000 women a year in the third world, who die from unsafe
abortions.

Not that the 4 million $ a year will change the world, but
at least it is a start.

Shame on the libs for denying third world women rights
which Australian women take for granted.

Australia supports the death of our native unborn to about 80,000 to 100,000 so it no strange thing that they will now support the death of the unborn overseas. We have now justified murder as legitimate while we condemn the ancients for sacrificing their chilren to the fertility cults as primitive.

The influence of Green politics with their undercurrent political stance on population reduction is behind this current view. Australia has to import workers from the third world to maintain our young population of workers.