You think starting up businesses is more important than basic healthcare?

I doubt they would set up 'abortion clinics' by themselves. It would be part of a broader health care package. Remember that childbirth is a time of very high risk for both mother and child. Mothers frequently die in childbirth in poor countries.

It's not that people are spending money on promoting abortions. It's that conservative campaigners are demanding that any health service funded is not allowed to mention the topic.

I think this stinks but, one thing is a rape victim wont be of sound mind for a length of time before they are able to make their own unbias decision to terminate pregnancy.

Does the State make that decision for them or do we leave it to the rape victim?

The Catholic Church is the same church that allows Gays to be ministers. The church should believe that God will choose who becomes pregnant and who doesn't. Is the Catholic church run by Man or God?

I don't think it's possible to give unbiased advice. Even if you read from a list of things you are allowed to say, or give both points of view, you are still going to give subtle hints about your opinion in your voice inflexion etc. If they are good devout catholics then they are going to put their obedience to God before any other rules they are given. The church can even fire them on a regular basis - there are plenty more to choose from.

What scares me the most is that I know certain group of men see rape of a woman as their contribution to a political/religious war which is happening within their households?

What  scares me more is that Australian people at large do not seem to understand that sex offenders do not necessarily see rape as wrong..

I will try to explain the type of male we are dealing with,..

I have had the opportunity to read the report on actual events caused by High Profile Sex Offenders.   (Unfortunately I must not name names. I am sure you know these brothers.)  

also, I have been unfortunate to be born in the country which,16 years later, will go into a civil/religious war and where I will spend no less than two years as a teenage girl in a mans bloody world

While reading the police report and "while doing my time" in a war zone I have come across a certain type of a male who is most likely to offend..
This male is from uneducated & usually Very Large Family. Within his culture large families who have large number of kids are put on a pedestal.  And I am not talking about 4, 5, and even 8... I am talking about 10, 11, 13...  To them Education comes way behind their religion, domination over other religions, food, learning native’s language...

These kids grow up listening to their parents talking about nothing else  but the importance of their god and their religion...  Parents are illiterate. They have nothing else to teach the child nor do they want to because they are certain their god is right and as long as they populate/multiply they will be ok.  As far as they are concerned , their power lies in numbers.  

These men are encouraged and are seen as better/higher men if they are to marry a woman from other religions. It’s a victory for them..  he has minimised the "other side" numbers by 1.  And he gets extra "presents" from his god when he dies.  

Rape is a form of showing dominance (but this you know) however, RAPE,  first and foremost is a form of populating the "other side" with their seed.  This method has been used by the Ottoman empire (The Turks)and was seen as the most effective way of not only bringing fear into the invaded countries but also a way of spreading their own religion (+ men get rewarded for doing it.)   It is their goal to make a woman pregnant not "just" rape her.  My ancestors have lived 500 years under their rule and rape was almost like a trade mark to them...

Unfortunately, in the last Civil War (1990's) my side, the Christians, as well as other "type" of Christians have adapted their disgusting ways and they too have raped their women with the excuse of 'returning' what was due.  I can not begin to explain how ashamed I am to be born within these creatures.

I have experienced and seen the behaviours of young men who rape women.  What I could not believe is that I would read factual / similar story which happened here in Sydney.  I thought it was safe here...

My intention is neither to spread the hate nor racism.  My intention is to advise you to keep your sisters and cousins close... Especially women raised in Australia, who are tolerant/accepting, their views can be naive and only get them into trouble.  

They need to know that men who move in herds are dangerous because they are stupid (they move in herds cause they know, by themselves, they are inadequate). They have no brains and all they know is violence.

THIS PLANET is too small for the number of vicious men who are able & willing to attack us.  Australia is not the only country where this happens.  The whole word is dealing with these issues.

I fear things will get worse but lets hope its my previous experience which is making me pesimistic and not anything else.

Thank you Australia
take care

Jelena

 

http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/Amnesty-backs-womens-right-to-abortion/2007/08/18/1186857817774.html

Human rights group Amnesty International has backed women's right to an abortion if their lives are in danger or if they have been raped in a move likely to further anger the Catholic Church.

The church, which considers abortion to be murder and never justified, has already urged Catholic organisations to withdraw their support for Amnesty over the policy. The Vatican says Amnesty has "betrayed its mission".

At the end of its annual meeting in Mexico City on Friday, Amnesty said it would work to "support the decriminalisation of abortion, to ensure women have access to heath care when complications arise from abortion and to defend women's access to abortion ... when their health or human rights are in danger".

Amnesty Secretary-General Irene Khan told Reuters in July that the new policy, inspired by rapes in war zones such as Darfur, urged governments to provide safe abortions when women conceive after rape or incest or when a pregnant woman's life is threatened.

Bishop William Skylstad, head of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, said in July the decision "undermines Amnesty's long-standing moral credibility" and called on the London-based rights group, founded by a Catholic layman, to reverse its policy.

Man... those Japs are efficient. 

Women with ill foetuses denied abortions

http://news.smh.com.au/women-with-ill-foetuses-denied-abortions/20080120-1mz4.html

Pregnant women carrying a foetus with an abnormality are being denied abortions even when the defect is grounds for "non-treatment" after the baby is born, a leading obstetrician has warned.

The specialist, Professor Lachlan de Crespigny from the University of Melbourne, says current abortion laws are discriminatory and inconsistent, especially towards mums-to-be who detect an abnormality like Down's Syndrome or inoperable heart tumours in their unborn child.

Most parents opt to abort if a severe abnormality is found in a test, but Prof de Crespigny says access to the tests and termination varies depending on where they live, the values of the doctor involved and the determination of the woman.

The problem is that many abnormalities are picked up in ultrasounds at around 20 weeks gestation, and therefore require a later-term abortion which many doctors are reluctant to perform under current laws, he said.

"Women who request a later abortion after the shocking news of a major foetal abnormality may face a harrowing journey and feel that they have been abandoned by hospitals and doctors," wrote Prof de Crespigny and co-author Professor Julian Savulescu, an ethicist at the University of Oxford in the UK.

"The diagnosis and a woman's reluctant request for abortion are distressing enough but if she attends a private obstetrician there is a high likelihood the doctor will not run the personal risk of performing the abortion," they said.

Catholic hospitals won't perform it, rural hospitals rarely can and the few public city hospitals that do will require reassessment by an abortion committee and may still refuse after weeks of delay.

"Such refusals may leave women embittered, not just because of the devastating outcome to their much wanted pregnancy but because of the impersonal and arbitrary system they had to navigate."

A survey of 20 Melbourne obstetricians specialising in foetal abnormalities found that all but one thought Victorian abortion law, similarity restrictive as other states, was unclear and often inappropriate.

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Police end Qld abortion protest standoff

http://news.smh.com.au/police-end-qld-abortion-protest-standoff/20080209-1r8r.html

A Right to Life protest in Brisbane almost turned nasty when a group of pro-choice demonstrators ambushed the event and stole the limelight.

Police were called to diffuse the tense stand-off after about 50 pro-choice campaigners stormed the stage as the church-backed Respect for Women rally was about to begin in Queen's Park at 2pm (AEST) on Saturday.

The rally was organised to protest against a private members bill proposed, but not yet lodged, by Labor MP Bonny Barry calling for abortion to be decriminalised in the state.

In Queensland, it is currently an offence to conduct an abortion except when a doctor deems the mother's life to be at risk.

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Sex education lacking in Qld: forum

http://news.smh.com.au/sex-education-lacking-in-qld-forum/20080225-1umu.html

Queensland teenagers are at greater risk of abuse, infections and pregnancies due to an ad hoc approach to sex education, a forum has heard.

Research indicated less than five per cent of Queensland students received comprehensive sex education, Family Planning Queensland manager for research and development Holly Brennan told the forum in Brisbane on Monday.

"At the moment it is really up to the school's discretion of how they do it because there are no checks and balances in place," Ms Brennan told AAP outside the forum.

"So some schools will have a fantastic program that goes from grades one to 12 while others just give young people a five-minute talk before they go to schoolies at the end of Year 12."

Ms Brennan said parents were not talking to their children about sexual issues as they believed it was covered at school.

She said young people who received sexual education were less likely to be abused or catch sexually transmitted diseases.

"If young people get sexuality education they are more likely to have sex at a later age and more likely to use contraception when they do, and they are more likely to do it without the influence of drugs and alcohol and be making choices that aren't as exploitative," she said.

Ms Brennan said Queensland was second only to the Northern Territory when it came to child sex abuse and teenage pregnancy rates in Australia.

"People support (sex education), but there is no leadership saying this has to be done," she said.

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Give morning-after pill to girls: expert

http://news.smh.com.au/give-morningafter-pill-to-girls-expert/20080302-1w61.html

Nurses at Victorian schools should be able to give the morning-after pill to girls without their parents knowing, an adolescent health expert says.

Victoria's Centre for Adolescent Health director Professor Susan Sawyer told News Limited newspapers young people legally had a right to confidential health care.

And she said girls should be able to have emergency oral contraception.

Prof Sawyer's call comes as teenage pregnancy rates continue to rise in country Victoria.

Almost 10 per cent of births in Swan Hill are to teenage mothers aged from 15 to 19. In the Central Goldfields, the rate is 14.5 per cent.