Posted on 06/27/2022 7:19:09 PM PDT by Morgana
Liberal National Party senator Matt Canavan wants late-term abortions to be banned in Australia after the US rolled back abortion rights.
All Australian jurisdictions apart from the ACT, Tasmania and WA allow elective abortions after 20 weeks.
Senator Canavan, a Catholic who has four sons and a daughter, believes abortions beyond this time are 'barbaric' and should be banned except in rare circumstances.
Although the science is contested, he subscribes to the view that beyond 20 weeks foetuses can feel pain and even try to avoid surgical equipment in the womb.
'The science has evolved massively where we now have these 3D ultra sounds and much more evidence about what happens to a baby,' he told Sky News on Tuesday morning.
'Past about 20 weeks the scientific consensus is that babies can feel pain.
'We can see and observe in late-term abortions that babies seek to avoid the instruments of the procedure.
'I think that has changed a lot of views.'
Senator Canavan said Australia is 'isolated' in the world because only six other nations allow elective abortions after 20 weeks: Canada, China, the Netherlands, North Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam.
His list appears to be based on a 2014 report by the Charlotte Lozier Institute which was fact-checked as correct by the Washington Post in 2017.
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Drip, drip.
Just to be clear, it wasn’t me (DadOfFive) referenced in the title, lol.
Prayers offered up. 🙏🙏🙏
Sanity from the Land Down Under. So glad, it’s a wonderful place with really nice people. I thought the coronavirus killed off the place. A glimmer of hope.
Just so everyone understands, Australia is like what the USA has now become with the recent ruling by the Supreme Court, in that the states in Australia make the laws on abortions. The Federal Government here does not make the laws on abortion.
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