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Cheap ‘baby killing drugs’ plan blasted
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| By Damir Govorcin
10 February, 2013 |
The move to subsidise abortion drugs RU486 and GyMiso is anti-children, anti-women, and anti-family, says Bishop Julian Porteous, auxiliary bishop of Sydney.
“These drugs are not medicines as they are not used for the treatment of disease or illness: they are used to kill babies and have also caused deaths among women,” he said.
The Federal Government will consider subsidising these drugs allowing women to end pregnancies for as little as $12, reported The Daily Telegraph.
The drugs were given approval by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) to be imported into Australia last year.
Reproductive health group Marie Stopes International Australia has lodged an application with the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme advisory committee in the hope the drugs will become taxpayer-funded.
Only 187 authorised medical clinics have been approved to distribute the two drugs, and campaigners claim the current $300 cost has been prohibitive for many women on lower incomes seeking a non-surgical abortion.
Bishop Porteous says Marie Stopes International Australia, which has been at the forefront of promoting abortion, comes out of the eugenics movement of the 1920s – a social philosophy that has “inflicted human rights violations upon millions of people, including violations of the right to life”.
“The negative racial aspects of eugenics is now treated under the international crime of genocide,” he said.
“The killing of unborn children has yet to be recognised as the genocide of generations that is happening in our own neighbourhoods.”
Paul Hanrahan, executive director of Family Life International, Australia’s largest Catholic pro-life organisation, says RU486 was available to Marie Stopes before it received approval from the TGA.
“How much influence has Marie Stopes had in the approval process and subsequent events may never be known,” he said.
“What is certain is that if the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme approves RU486 for inclusion as a subsidised drug MS Health [a not for profit subsidiary of Marie Stopes International] stands to make substantial profits [untaxed] funded by the Australian taxpayers.
“Is the health and psychological well-being of young and vulnerable women less important than helping an international abortion and contraceptive provider increase their revenues?”
Mr Hanrahan said of the 22,330 reported cases of women being prescribed RU486, there have been 599 cases where the surgical removal of the foetus was still required.
“Of the balance of these cases, all were still required to attend a medical clinic at least twice,” he said, “once for the original examination and diagnosis and administration of the drug, and the dispensing of the prostaglandin to be taken two days later at home to induce uterine contractions to expel the baby.
“They then are required to attend two weeks later for an examination to ensure the abortion has occurred successfully.
“This chemical abortion is associated with significant side effects especially haemorrhage and close access to medical assistance is very necessary.
“Rural women are then at risk of complications if they live a significant distance from a hospital.
“We have so far in Australia one death that we know of attributable to this deadly drug.
“Many others around the world have been reported and the many side effects besides these deaths are well known.
“What number will be needed before our politicians and the paid bureaucrats start doing the job they are paid to do, that is, be the guardians of the people who pay them and stop bowing to a discredited ideology that has wrought havoc on the social and moral order already.”
Mary Joseph, project officer for the Sydney archdiocese’s Life, Marriage and Family Centre, says the availability of a cheap abortion drug combination will mean women will face more pressure to have abortions.
“We must ensure that pregnant women in crisis know there is help available and that the Church is ready to support them and their babies,” she said.
“It is deeply distressing that the Government is considering public funding for a drug which takes the life of an innocent unborn child, and places the life and health of a pregnant woman at risk by encouraging her to self-administer an abortion at home.
“Every pregnant woman has the right to receive the care and support necessary to continue her pregnancy and give birth to her baby.
“For the Government to be seeking to put limited public funds into the subsidisation of abortion, rather than into the care and services that pregnant women need, is a tragic sign of the removal of the dignity of the human person from the core values of our health care system.
“It is an abandonment of its responsibility to legally protect and care for the lives of both mother and child.”
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