As one of the very few rich countries that still has a young and growing population, Australia should embrace this opportunity and continue to grow. Other countries may well abolish themselves but Australia should not. Read more.

So far, Australia has its population debate the wrong way around. It is not population growth that will be the developed world’s biggest worry over the coming decades, but population decline.

Oliver Marc Hartwich
Business Spectator

Australia’s total fertility rate (TFR), the average number of children a woman would bear over her lifetime, fell sharply from 3.6 children per woman in 1961 to 1.9 in 1979 and continued to fall steadily for the next 20 years. In 2002-03 it reached a low of 1.72 children per woman. Since then, it has increased, and in 2008 Australia’s TFR was 1.978 babies per woman, the highest level since 1977 when the TFR was 2.007.
Even though the total fertility rate has recently risen to 1.978 births per woman, it remains below replacement levels of 2.1 births per woman.
Few developed countries have a fertility rate as high as Australia, the USA being the most notable exception with a TFR around the replacement rate of 2.1, and New Zealand with a replacement rate of 2. Read more.

Theological Thuggery” (Rev Macleod-Miller19th March)…what an emotive turn of phrase to use against the Helper’s of God’s Precious Infants who sacrifice much to spend time outside of the Englehardt abortion clinic offering prayer and real help and support for women facing a crisis pregnancy. The heart of the Helpers is not a protest, but rather a peaceful, prayerful presence that is a visible witness to all that abortion not only destroys an innocent human life, but endangers the physical, and mental wellbeing of the mother, father and all those who are involved. The Helper’s believe that all prayer whether one is physically present at the clinic or not is ‘heard’ by God, but having a physical presence at the abortion clinic is necessary to see that none of the innocent lives which are taken each week go unnoticed. The belief that each individual life has inestimable value, is unique and unrepeatable gives us courage to stand there and be a witness that their lives are worth just as much as our own and that like them, we were once weak and vulnerable too. I have had the great privilege to hold in my arms a little baby boy who was destined for an abortion. After speaking with the Helpers and accepting their practical help, his parents were enabled to have their child and were so happy that they called us to share in the joy of that new life only hours after the birth. Is just one life worth this much?…Could one person change the world? We think so.

Peta Evans

The Helper’s of God’s Precious Infants Albury

On Sunday 25 May, 2012 people all over the world marked the Day of the Unborn Child by processions and vigils. In Albury, over two hundred men, women, and children  peacefully prayed in front of the abortion clinic in Albury at 586 Englehardt Street.  An angry pro abortion neighbour who has supported noisy pro abortion protestors in front of the clinic, ranted to the local newspaper about the legal procession and vigil through town. Even though pro abortionists have used loudspeakers  at various times, blasted music from their cars, indeed have danced in front of the abortion clinic, this resident only took offense to the one time when the pro life group used a loud speaker to lead prayers for the very large group to hear over the music that the neighbours were blasting from their porches when they saw the peaceful vigil coming. The picture above depicts the families that she calls, “zealots, bigots, emotional bullies, and spiritual manipulators.”

March 12, 2012

Perth Now

by: Jamie Walker

From: The Australian

March 19, 2012 12:00AM

AUSTRALIA has had its first death of a woman using the abortion pill to terminate her pregnancy at home.

Health regulator the Therapeutic Goods Administration issued a notice to doctors and clinics to review their follow-up care in light of the “bedroom abortion” gone wrong.

The woman, unnamed by authorities, had been treated by the country’s largest private abortion service, Marie Stopes International Australia, in 2010. She is believed to have developed a streptococcus A infection and died of sepsis.

The death, confirmed only now, is the only one to be linked to use of RU486 since its introduction to Australia in 2006 and is believed to be the first in at least a decade involving a sanctioned elective abortion. The case was reported to a coroner, but no inquest was convened despite the rarity of abortion-related deaths in Australia. Read the rest of this entry »

Children protesting with their parents.  Seems it’s acceptable for some politically correct issues such as global warming but not the killing of innocent unborn children and the harming of women.  Oh dear.

Read more here about “Children Protesting for Politically Correct Agendas.”

The real agenda of the sham “Abortion Forum” is revealed in the following letter to the editor.

Sham Abortion “Forum”