Choose Life Australia

Statement: In Victoria we have unrestricted late-term abortion, unrestricted eugenic selection of anything regarded as imperfect through to birth, and legal compulsion of doctors to act against their conscience – all this significantly due to the influence of Emily’s List of which our PM Julia Gillard is a founder.
Question: If it is absolutely clear that a political party leader is deliberately leading the country in an un-ethical and anti-God direction, can we trust that leader or that party in other non-God areas?

Meditation from Cradle Mountain Chateau, Tasmania: What’s going on?
The small picture is that I am sitting here in front of the log fire in one of the libraries at Cradle Mountain Chateau looking out over the rain-swept forest and the fold after fold of ranges, thinking shall I just stay here and write or [...]

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 [...]

At root, the culture of death is about autonomy. The cry for abortion centres
on we want control over our bodies; the cloning debate hinges on but we
want to do this research anyway, even if it is not necessary and even if it is
wrong; the call for Advance Care Directives and euthanasia is ultimately
about we want to choose when we die, not just when life is near its natural
end but at any other time we choose as well. It is a “we want” battle to the
exclusion of any consideration of moral law or the soul. And Dr Nitschke
wants to include troubled teens.

Listen to this marvellous piece of narrative from the Old Testament somewhere around 2,500-3,000 years ago. The background is that Jeremiah the prophet has just dictated a judgment against the king but with an opportunity to change his ways and thus save Jerusalem from destruction. The scribe is Jehudi.
It was the ninth month and the [...]

The shedding of innocent blood
Preamble to prayer of repentance at National Solemn Assembly, Canberra 9-11 March 2007 with specific reference to abortion and cloning. The profession of medicine has a long and noble history of skill and compassion.The teachers I had in medical school were honourable and moral and many of them were Christian.
But we are [...]

Conflicting views in medical ethics.
Concern for society and the future of medicine.
At root is the conflict between the utilitarian view of human life and the ‘intrinsic value’ view (human life has intrinsic value from fertilisation to life’s natural end in all conditions of disability and dependency).
The utilitarian view is already ‘respectable’ and is dependent on [...]

(I like disingenuity but it’s not a word).
Disingenuous adj. insincere.
Based on the now well-known quote by Senator Kay Patterson in 2002
“I believe it is disingenuous to suggest that approving this research (on spare embryos) will open the door to further killing of living human beings.”
With her added moral statement eliminating, it would seem to the [...]

Confessing Christ in a culture that has forgotten how to shudder.  June 2010.
Genesis 1:27,28
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them.
God blessed them and said to them, “Be fruitful and increase in number; fill the earth and subdue it. Rule over [...]

Download as PDF: Human Cloning and Embryonic Stem Cell Research
I am wearing 3 hats tonight. The first one is of a medical practitioner concerned about the direction our country is going in medical science. I also happen to be a Christian and the relevance of that is that it gives me a solid underpinning of [...]