Letters

Safe abortion?

Maureen Federico

Contents - Aug 2010 - Buy a copy now Feast of the Assumption: Benedict XVI's homily Troubled future of the Church in Ireland - Archbishop Diarmuid Martin News: The Church Around the World The Mass: why we should focus on its essence - Fr John O'Neill PP Liberalism: Christian churches and the 'religious left' - Babette Francis Foundations of Faith: The Sacrament of Penance: whatever happened to confession? - Br Barry Coldrey Foundations of Faith: The angel who died on Christmas Day - Arthur N. Ballingall Justice: A Queensland Year 12 student: the injustice of abortion Vocations: Mother Dolores Hart OSB: from Hollywood to convent - Michael Gilchrist Letters: Liturgy Letters: Infallibility - Dr Frank Mobbs Letters: Safe abortion? - Maureen Federico Letters: Obama Health Bill - Sr Rose Mary Kinne OP Letters: Euthanasia - Dr Arnold Jago Letters: Definitions by design - J. Loring Letters: Future Church - John Barich Books: THE CATHOLIC PRIEST IMAGE OF CHRIST: Through Fifteen Centuries of Art - Terri Kelleher (reviewer) Books: THE GUILLOTINE AND THE CROSS, by Warren H. Carroll - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: BLESSED PIUS IX, by Roberto de Mattei - Michael Daniel (reviewer) Books: JESUS CHRIST, YESTERDAY, TODAY, FOREVER, by Fr Anthony Percy - Micheal Daniel (reviewer) Books: DON'T KNOW MUCH ABOUT CATHOLIC HISTORY: From the Catacombs to the Reformation - Terri Kelleher (reviewer) Books: Order books from www.freedompublishing.com.au Reflection: Why the true meaning of marriage must be enshrined in law - Archbishop John C. Nienstedt

Both the ABC and the commercial TV stations carried an item of news (9 April) regarding hygiene malpractice at a Croydon (Victoria) late term abortion clinic wherein at least 12 women had been infected with Hepatitis C Virus. According to further news (31 May) this number is now 44, and may well be the subject of a class action to sue the Victorian Medical Practitioners Board over failing to protect them.

Abortion is, and always has been, a dangerous practice whatever the modern spin, be it from a backyard crone, or the taxpayer funded, frontyard "failed medicos without conscience" (who else would do it?) who run this racket.

The health of these women has been seriously imperilled, and they should request Victoria's Brumby Government (and its ageing peers of both genders who cracked open a bottle of champagne on the night that it became legal to take a baby's life up to birth) as to what work practices and overview were in place.

After all the Government is providing a service - that service being an abattoir for human babies, and not a safe environment for the mother either! It is one in the eye for the pro-abortion militant feminists who promised their sisters that it be "safe and legal". They might have got the legal from a morally bankrupt government, but safe - never!

MAUREEN FEDERICO
Frankston South, Vic

Reprinted from AD2000 Vol 23 No 7 (August 2010), p. 14