Some call me passionate – I suppose I am. What do I want? A safe place for our children here now and in the future. I want to hold high the intrinsic value of all human life in all states of dependency. I want to defend liberty of conscience, freedom of speech and I want to see ethical government. I want to see truth honoured and spoken. There’s more but that’ll do… 
The Ethical Crisis in our Parliaments
The Ethical Crisis in our Parliaments
“Recent atrocious laws about abortion and embryonic stem cell research only passed by one or two votes. Will the same happen with euthanasia, assisted suicide and cloning? Why wouldn’t it? If we do not encourage people with strong Christian values about life, marriage and family to enter parliament, nothing will change.
The church cannot be involved in politics but it can encourage Catholics and other Christian people to enter parliament, bringing with them their own personal convictions formed by the church upbringing. Is anyone listening? I sincerely hope so.”
Archbishop Barry Hickey 8 Nov 2009 reported in The Record 25 Nov 2009.
We can be very grateful that a prominent church leader makes this kind of call.
Is he right? Absolutely.
How can it be that just over one year ago one of our parliaments, in the name of freedom of choice, trampled on the medical profession’s freedom of choice and liberty of conscience not to be involved in something they might consider evil? The Victorian State parliament in allowing abortion for any reason at any stage of pregnancy – right through to term – overruled doctor’s freedom of choice and liberty of conscience not to be involved in this process. (see box)
MUST SEE VIDEO
The issues regarding the Victorian Abortion law were well explored at the Conscience Laws and Healthcare Conference held in Melbourne July 25, 2009. For proceedings of this see http://www.vimeo.com/7809169 including a powerful video of Dr Lachlan Dunjey’s presentation.
For written speech see
http://www.medicinewithoutmorality.info/TheCoercionofDoctorsMelbourne.pdf
