In most Australian states, doctors are not required to provide medical assistance to children born alive as a result of an abortion.
These babies are left to gasp for breath until they die.
They deserve the same rights and medical treatment as any other human being.
Queensland Health’s Clinical Guidelines for abortion state:
‘If [during an abortion] a live birth occurs… Do not provide life sustaining treatment… Document the time and date of death.’
In 2016 in Victoria, 33 out of the 310 babies aborted after 20 weeks gestation were born alive.
Also in Victoria, babies born alive During late-term abortionS, that subsequently die, are recorded as neonatal deaths, NOT aborted babies.
Between 2005 and 2015, 204 babies were born alive as a result of abortionS in Queensland.
It seems none were afforded life-saving medical care.
The Human rights (children born alive protection) bill 2021
This bill is for an act to protect children born alive, including as a result of terminations. Under this bill, when a child is born alive as a result of an abortion, attending medical practitioners must take action to save the child’s life.
If they do not act to save the child they will face significant financial penalty and probable deregistration as a medical practitioner.
This bill gives effect to international agreements with which Australia is a signatory, in particular the Convention on the Rights of the Child and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
Article 6 of the Convention on the Rights of the Child dictates that, “State parties recognise that every child has the inherent right to life.”
Yes, I support this bill to protect children born alive as a result of abortion
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