One day the practice of aborting babies in Australia will go the way of the practice of enslaving black people in the British Empire.
Abortion will take its place with the slave trade as an abhorrent human rights abuse.
It’s just a matter of time.
Just as Christians spent decades campaigning against British politicians who supported slavery and prevailed over them, so too will the largely Christian-led fight against pro-abortion politicians be won.
The latest flashpoint was in the New South Wales Parliament last week.
The Greens, always trying to expand the culture of death, had introduced a bill euphemistically entitled the Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025.
This bill would have forced pro-life health practitioners to violate their consciences and refer pregnant women to a practitioner willing to commit abortion.
It would have forced pro-life hospitals, mainly Catholic, to perform abortions.
But thanks to behind-the-scenes lobbying by groups like the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney, Freedom for Faith, the Australian Christian Lobby, and public activism by pro-life law professor Dr Joanna Howe, the anti-conscience provisions were struck out.
Family First also played its part, writing to all 93 lower house members advising them that if they voted for the bill, the party would preference against them at the 2027 election.
When the bill finally went to the floor of the NSW Legislative Assembly last Wednesday, all that was left was a provision turning midwives and nurses into abortionists.
This of course is terrible, but pro-life doctors and hospitals had dodged a bullet.
Dr Howe’s activism through cut-through social media commentary and well-organised protests outside Parliament in Macquarie Street engaged tens of thousands of people whose voices were able to be amplified.
The push-back on the abortion bill clearly rattled Premier Chris Minns and Coalition leader Mark Speakman who accused Dr Howe, without evidence, of “misinformation”.
All three major party leaders – Minns, Speakman, and the Nationals Dugald Saunders – voted for more abortion.
Embedded in this blog is a screen shot of the MPs who voted for and against the bill.
Family First intends to run pro-life candidates in as many of the 93 lower house seats as possible at the 2027 election to support the party’ quest to win an Upper House seat.
Family First will preference against those who voted for the bill.
Just as the British Parliament was persuaded by evidence of the humanity of black people, so too will Australian Parliaments be persuaded of the humanity of little people.
At elections looming in South Australia, Victoria, and NSW voters will have the chance to vote for candidates who are on the right side of history.
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Lyle Shelton is National Director of the Family First Party. He started his career as a rural journalist before being elected as a member of the Toowoomba City Council and serving the Australian Christian Lobby for 10 years, half of that decade as ACL’s Managing Director. He was a Director and spokesman for the Coalition for Marriage during the 2017 postal survey campaign which resulted in the legal undefinition of marriage. He also blogs here.
