Posted on 02/17/2006 6:56:56 PM PST by Aussie Dasher
FALLOUT from this week's heated showdown over abortion continued yesterday after supporters of the new law were pictured celebrating their victory.
Victorian Liberal MP Chris Pearce criticised a group of female MPs and senators for sipping champagne soon after Parliament paved the way for RU486's use in Australia.
Senators Lyn Allison, Judith Troeth and Fiona Nash, and Labor MPs Kelly Hoare and Julia Gillard were among those drinking to their success after the conscience vote.
Mr Pearce, who backed the Bill, said it was a tasteless gesture.
"Pictures of the women sipping champagne was outrageous and over the top," he said yesterday.
"Members and senators had to dig very deep to make decisions on this. That kind of celebratory behaviour is very wrong."
With many on both sides of the debate agreeing there are too many abortions in Australia, the Howard Government is to consider a $60 million plan to boost counselling for women with unplanned pregnancies.
Medicare-funded counselling and a 24-hour phone hotline are among initiatives to be examined.
But Ms Gillard, who said no offence was intended by the champagne, said counselling should not be restricted to abortion.
"Certainly, pregnant women dealing with an unwanted pregnancy might want to access counselling but so might someone who has lost their wife or their husband or a child, someone who has been in an accident and now has a disabling injury -- somebody facing a lifetime event that is putting them under a real strain should have access to counselling," she said.
Australian Medical Association president Mukesh Haikerwal also said the proposed service should be widened.
"It really needs to be a general women's health, women's sexual health-type item, rather than specifically around abortion, which of course would be discriminatory," he said.
Apparently Ms. Hoare and her gang don't agree.
DISCUSSION ABOUT:
"Abortion Bill Celebration Attacked"
More social fallout in Australia related to the "abortion pill" issues of use and refuse, with implications for other nations/cultures in relationship to this same medication.
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I keep thinking about...ZOMBIES!!
People who are so transparently shameless about being wedded to evil are lost causes. Only problem is they want to turn everyone else into a lost cause like themselves.
I can't even imagine this. A celebratory party to commemorate more death. Macabre.
Women celebrating that they have the right to murder their own children.
How mentally ill.
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