Australians murder about 100,000 people a year! Yes! That's right! One hundred thousand people a year! But you won't hear a word in the media about this tragedy. If you don't believe those figures - refer to the table at the end of this commentary for Commonwealth Department of Human Resources and Health statistics from 1984 to 1996. In the four years from 1996 to now - the figure has increased to about 100,000 a year compared to about 260,000 live births. Note that the total we have killed is rapidly approaching a million
In fact, those who try to bring this to the publics' attention are criticised, vilified and demonised and accused of violating basic human rights. It's the ultimate hypocrisy!
Abortion in the vast majority of cases
is murder. I make no apology for this statement. Almost all
abortions are carried out to get rid of
an unwanted, 'inconvenient' human being. Not for any genuine
reason to save the life of the mother.
Just sheer inconvenience. Or to cover up the effects of that
politically incorrect term these days
- Sin!!
Why do I say murder? Simple - under the Queensland Criminal Code the crimes of killing and murder are defined in the sections quoted here.
Definition of “killing”
293. Except as hereinafter set forth,
any person who causes the death of another, directly or indirectly, by
any means whatever, is deemed to have killed that other person.
Definition of “murder”
302.(1) Except as hereinafter set forth,
a person who unlawfully kills another under any of the following circumstances,
that is to say—(a) if the offender intends to cause the death of the person
killed or that of some other person or if the offender intends to do to
the person killed or to some other person some grievous bodily harm;
(b) if death is caused by means of
an act done in the prosecution of an unlawful purpose, which act is of
such a nature as to be likely to endanger human life;
(c) if the offender intends to do grievous
bodily harm to some person for the purpose of facilitating the commission
of a crime which is such that the offender may be arrested without warrant,
or for the purpose of facilitating the flight of an offender who has committed
or attempted to commit any such crime;
(d) if death is caused by administering
any stupefying or overpowering thing for either of the purposes mentioned
in paragraph (c);
(e) if death is caused by wilfully
stopping the breath of any person for either of such purposes;
is guilty of “murder”.
Can the description of wilful, pre-meditated murder fit any better what happens when a completely innocent life is forcibly and deliberately sucked out of the one place in this world that one would expect a baby to be safe and then discarded like a piece of trash!!
So how is this gotten around? This is all declared okay because of the definition of a human being found in this section of the Criminal Code.
When a child becomes a human being
292. A child becomes a person capable
of being killed when it has
completely proceeded in a living state
from the body of its mother, whether
it has breathed or not, and whether
it has an independent circulation or not,
and whether the navel-string is severed
or not.
How convenient, how simple to excuse this vile act by simply declaring that a child or baby is not a human being at all until it has been expelled from the womb.
Perhaps instead of health risk warnings on cigarette packets - we should concentrate on stating the basic biological fact ' Sex causes babies'.
If you don't want a baby the answer is
ludicrously simple. Don't have sex! Or use one
of the easily
obtained contraceptives. Can there
really be an excuse for any unwanted pregnancy to be aborted
in this day and age when information about
contraception and basic biology abounds in schools and the community generally.
When a citizen or police officer shoots
someone in self defence or in the prevention of a crime.
There is an immediate outcry and a call
for an inquiry to determine if there is some way that the
citizen or officer can be found guilty
of some offence.
Usually phrases such as "No one deserves
to be killed just for stealing", or headlines like "Officer
guns down suspect", deliberately calculated
to infer wrong doing and that all killing is non justifiable, immediately
hit the media headlines. The number of shootings that occur each year in
Australia are still relatively small. The Australian Bureau of Statistics
indicates that only 64
firearm related deaths happened in 1998/1999. When you compare this
with the numbers killed through abortion each year - it really pales into
insignificance
If all killing is non justifiable - why
is the evil of abortion on demand allowed to kill these thousands of completely
defenceless would be Australians every year.
.
Any society that glibly brushes off the
wholesale slaughter of this magnitude under the trite phrase 'A woman's
right to choose' has not only lost it's way. It has forfeited any
right to the blessings of God
as a nation and a people.
© Graham Brown
January 2001
The following figures are from the COMMONWEALTH DEPARTMENT OF HUMAN SERVICES AND HEALTH. The figures are the total number of abortions in each province and the total in all of Australia.
Incidence of item 35643 (6469)(a), 1984/85 to 1995/96
(Date of Processing - Patient State)
Year NSW(b)
VIC QLD
SA WA TAS
ACT NT AUST
1984/85 24435 13495
7460 1682 6090
746 1069 176
55153
1985/86 25173 13967
7841 1642 6329
829 1099 172
57052
1986/87 26353 15803
8208 1764 6857
780 1213 187
61165
1987/88 26315 15682
8596 1618 6702
783 1256 179
61131
1988/89 26865 16901
9449 1711 6967
727 1189 186
63995
1989/90 28136 18582
10451 1830 7384
751 1275 231
68640
1990/91 27997 18978
10421 1892 7624
814 1283 237
69246
1991/92 29296 19418
11540 1897 7703
972 1369 283
72478
1992/93 29521 19610
12180 1337 8061
993 1262 310
73274
1993/94 30516 20137
12756 1425 8290
1038 1330 341
75833
1994/95 31179 19923
13918 1203 8324
983 1395 292
77217
1995/96 31595 19786
13684 1004 8710
1035 1498 239
77551
1996/97 30983 19800
13652 839 8323
900 1435 259
76191
(b) Includes a small number of services for which patient State was unknown.