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 Tuesday 10 March 2009
Caritas Australia wholeheartedly affirms the concerns expressed by the Australian Prime Minister today regarding the changes to the family planning guidelines of the Australian aid program.
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 Tuesday 10 March 2009
Christians are dismayed that the Rudd Government believes abortion should take priority over proper birthing facilities for women in poor countries, the Australian Christian Lobby (ACL) said today.
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Tuesday 10 March 2009
The Australian Christian Lobby today urged the Rudd Government to take an evidenced based-approach to claims abortion clinics will save women’s lives in countries which don’t even have proper birthing facilities.
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 Wednesday 29 October 2008
A Senate submission lodged on behalf of 41 Federal MPs says Medicare
funding for abortion should continue because letting disabled babies
live would cost the Government too much money.
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Monday 13 October 2008
The passing of Victoria’s Abortion Law Reform Bill 2008 last Friday, a ‘Black Friday’ indeed, is a matter for deep regret, but now the challenge before our politicians is to act to provide real support for women, the Australian Christian Lobby said today.
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 Saturday 11 October 2008
The Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart said today that the passing of Abortion Law Reform Bill 2008 is a betrayal of humanity.
“It is a betrayal of our shared humanity, a betrayal of women, a betrayal of the innocent unborn child that we would ease the way to the destruction of 20,000 unborn children annually,” the Archbishop said today.
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 Friday 10 October 2008
Bishop Julian Porteous, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of
Sydney, yesterday released a message from Cardinal George Pell in
relation to the proposed abortion legislation before the
Victorian Upper House.
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 Wednesday 8 October 2008
The Australian Catholic University held a public forum exploring issues of conscientious objection in the Victorian Abortion Reform Bill on Monday night.
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 Tuesday 7 October 2008
The newly formed group Doctors in Conscience against Abortion Bill now
has almost 200 doctors as well as nurses, psychologists and pharmacists
supporting the group’s call to the Victorian Government to reject the
Abortion Law Reform Bill.
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 Sunday 5 October 2008
The Catholic Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart today thanked a packed
Cathedral of more 2500 to 3000 people who prayed with him for the
defeat of the Abortion Law Reform Bill presently before the Parliament
of Victoria.
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Tuesday 30 September 2008
Archbishop Hart wrote to Members of the Legislative Council on 19 September urging them to reject the Abortion Law Reform Bill as a breach of fundamental human rights.
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 Friday 19 September 2008
Archbishop Denis Hart has issued a pastoral letter to the Catholics of Victoria.
The Archbishop has called a Day of Intercession throughout the
Archdiocese on 5 October 2008 dedicated to the defeat of the Abortion
Law Reform Bill. He has invited all people of good will to join with
him in an hour of prayer at St Patrick's Cathedral at 12.15pm on that
day.
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 Wednesday 17 September 2008
On 8 September, the eve of the Lower House debate on the Abortion Law Reform Bill 2008, Victoria’s Ad Hoc Interfaith Committee invited abortion survivor Gianna Jessen to address politicians at Queen’s Hall in the Victorian Parliament.
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Thursday 4 September 2008
The Ad Hoc Interfaith Committee has sent an open letter to
Victorian MP's regarding the proposed abortion legislation
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 A Pastoral Letter of the Catholic Bishops of Victoria
To the Catholic people of Victoria and all men and women of good will, 2008 is a critical year in the life of the people of Victoria. In our State Parliament we are confronted by a series of legislative projects that involve grave moral issues. Prominent among these projects is the so-called “decriminalisation of abortion”.
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Thursday 21 August 2008
Archbishop Hart has spoken out strongly today against the Abortion Law Reform Bill 2008 and the proposal
to decriminalise abortion.
"Treating abortion as an ordinary medical procedure deprives the unborn, our most vulnerable human beings,
of the legal protection which the law should afford them. An abortion is not like any other medical
procedure and any attempt to treat it as such should be opposed both for the sake of the unborn and for the
sake of women who may be pressured to have an abortion," the Archbishop said.
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Friday 22 August 2008
1. Treating abortion as an ordinary medical procedure deprives the unborn, our most vulnerable human beings, of legal protection which the law should afford them. An abortion is not like any other medical procedure and any attempt to treat it as such should be opposed.
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6pm, Sunday 7 September - 10am, Tuesday 9 September
St Anthony’s Shrine
182 Power Street, Hawthorn
(Melway: 45 B11; Tram No. 70 or 75)
Seven Masses and 40
hours of prayer and Adoration to stop the proposed decriminalisation of
abortion legislation. The parliamentary debate is due to begin on
Tuesday 9 September.
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Monday 1 September 2008
Find out who your State Parliamentarians are by clicking on the link below.
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A fact sheet by the USCCB Committee on Pro-Life Activities
The Catechism of the Catholic Church states: “Since the first century
the Church has affirmed the moral evil of every procured abortion. This
teaching has not changed and remains unchangeable. Direct abortion,
that is to say, abortion willed either as an end or a means, is gravely
contrary to the moral law” (No. 2271).
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"God, the Lord of life, has entrusted, to men the noble mission of safeguarding life, and men must carry it out in a manner worthy of themselves. Life must be protected with the utmost care from the moment of conception: abortion and infanticide are abominable crimes."
Gaudium et Spes, 51 (1966).
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Monday 1 September 2008
The Abortion Law Reform Bill 2008 is
currently before State Parliament. Debate is due to begin on the Bill
on Tuesday 9 September.
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Tuesday 26 August 2008
The bottom line
regarding abortion and mental health is that women have been hurt and
they need help, says the founder of Project Rachel.
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 Thursday 24 July 2008
The chairman of the U.S. bishops pro-life committee says an issue is
being discussed by members of Congress that should be a matter of
agreement between "pro-lifers" and "pro-choicers": respect of
conscience.
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 Thursday 3 July 2008
The United Kingdom's abortion
statistics are a "badge of shame" for the nation, Cardinal Keith
O’Brien told Britain's 646 parliamentarians in a letter.
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 Tuesday 1 July 2008
Over ten years ago, His
Holiness, Pope John Paul II, recognised the need to extend the hand of
compassion to women who had undergone abortion.
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Thursday 29 May 2008
The Catholic Archbishop of
Melbourne, Archbishop Denis Hart, today called on the Victorian
Government to establish a Parliamentary Enquiry into abortion, before
introducing legislation on abortion.
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Tuesday 27 May 2008
A topic receiving more attention
recently in debates on abortion is the question as to whether a fetus
can suffer and feel pain. A book just published brings together a
variety of evidence by experts, mainly Italian, on the subject.
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 Friday 23 May 2008
Cardinal Cormac Murphy O'Connor looked at the bright side, after noting
the disappointment brought by parliamentarians who voted to leave the
upper time limit for Britain's abortion law at 24 weeks of gestation.
The vote rejected a proposal to lower the time limit to 12, 16, 20 or
even 22 weeks, based on research showing that babies are more and more
able to survive outside the womb at earlier points of gestation.
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Thursday 22 May 2008
The British House of Commons has
rejected proposals to reduce the 24-week limit on legal abortion
procedures. Cardinal Cormac Murphy-O’Connor has spoken out about the
results saying that many people will be "very disappointed" the outcome.
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 Thursday 22 May 2008
Good reasons to fight against the legalisation of abortion can be summarised in 10 basic points, affirm pro-lifers in Mexico.
Dioceses throughout the nation will participate in a march for life
this Sunday, convoked by the Mexican bishops' conference's department
of lay pastoral ministry. In preparation for the march, an official
from the organisation Manos a la Vida -- a play on words with the
Spanish expression "manos a la obra" (let's get to work) -- prepared a
10-point summary of the basic arguments against abortion.
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Monday 7 April 2008
The pain and suffering caused by abortion and divorce keep many from
pursuing a full life of faith, concluded a conference seeking pastoral
situations for children of divorce and parents of aborted children.
The two-day congress, titled "Oil on the Wounds: A Response to the
Aftermath of Abortion and Divorce", was organised by the Pontifical
John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and the Family and the
Knights of Columbus. It ended Saturday.
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Monday 7 April 2008
Pope
Benedict XVI said the church must bring the "Gospel of mercy" to those
involved in abortion and divorce, showing sensitivity to the inner
burdens they bear.
The Pope said both practices had created
much suffering in modern society, particularly among innocent victims,
leaving wounds that affect people's lives permanently.
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 Friday 26 October 2007 Archbishop Denis Hart has made a submission to the Victorian Law Reform Commission's abortion law review. Below is the full text of Archbishop Hart's submission. |
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