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(AgapePress) - "[A]t the end of the day, the truth is that when you perform an abortion you are killing something," said Dr. David Molloy of the Australian Medical Association. For pro-lifers, that is a statement of the obvious. But what if you were confronted with the full horror of what that death represented -- and still didn't care? Is it possible that pro-abortionists could finally admit that abortion is murder, but then collectively shrug their shoulders? That seems to be the case after the release of a British documentary entitled My Fetus, which aired in Britain in April, and...

The ABC is ill-prepared for the consequences of broadcasting graphic images of aborted foetuses, a leading anti-choice lobby group has warned. After the controversial documentary My Foetus airs on the ABC's Compass program tonight, viewers will be directed to the show's website. The ABC has put on extra staff tonight to field phone calls. But that is not good enough, said anti-abortion lobby group Right To Life Australia. "The ABC is not providing a number for any 24-hour pregnancy counselling," Right To Life Australia president Margaret Tighe said. The Compass website will provide contact numbers for Lifeline, Kids Help Line,...

THERE are some experts who don't want you to know what really goes on in an abortion clinic. You see, you may get the wrong idea. Which is, in fact, the right idea, but wrong if you have it. So the Australian Medical Association boss, Dr Bill Glasson, was apoplectic when he heard what the ABC would screen at 10.15 tonight. My Foetus is a documentary shot by the then-pregnant Julia Black, daughter of the founder of Marie Stopes International, a big British chain of abortion clinics. Black had an abortion at 21, and has long supported a woman's "right"...

That foetuses are humans cannot be denied, thanks to technology, writes Miranda Devine. An abortion clinic in Perth last month lodged an objection against a proposed child-care centre next door because the sight of children playing might upset its clients. The dispute was resolved when the local council ordered a two-metre brick fence be built between the properties. But the story highlights the lie so long at the heart of the abortion debate - that it is not about killing the smallest humans. The euphemisms used to describe abortion have long cloaked the reality of the act, at least before...

HEALTH Minister Tony Abbott believes there may be growing community support for banning late-term abortions. In a speech in Queensland, he claimed leading feminists were starting to express concern about the "downstream consequences of sexual freedom" and to question the abortion culture. "When leading feminists such as Wendy McCarthy and Eva Cox are calling for a rethink about abortion, the moral wheel might not have come full circle but the times are certainly changing," Mr Abbott told a closed conference at Coolum on the weekend. His comments referred to reports in The Australian last month in which they both said...

Focusing on the foetus unfairly obscures the context of a hard decision, writes Leslie Cannold. The documentary by the British filmmaker Julia Black, My Foetus, won't screen in Australia until August 8, but debate has already begun about whether the film should be censored and the impact it will have on abortion politics. The film, made while Black was pregnant with her first child, reconsiders an abortion she had over a decade earlier. It shows a woman, four weeks' pregnant, having a suction termination, as well as foetal remains at 10-, 11- and 21-weeks' gestation. The filmmaker claims, in an...

Julia Black, whose documentary captures abortion in graphic detail, tells why she felt the need to confront her audience. Ever since I can remember, I have been pro-choice. When I was five years old my father set up Marie Stopes International, a charity that has grown into one of Britain's largest abortion providers and a leading international reproductive rights agency. So I grew up hearing and believing the mantra, a woman's right to choose. When I became pregnant at 34, my beliefs started to come under attack for the first time. As my pregnancy progressed, I began to question my...

Women who have had an abortion should consider avoiding a controversial documentary on termination, a leading pro-choice group has warned. With the ABC planning to screen My Foetus, a British documentary that shows an abortion procedure, lobby group Children by Choice said the footage could upset the estimated one in four women who have had an abortion. "Women who are concerned about revisiting the experience of abortion should think very carefully about watching, and I probably would not recommend it," co-ordinator Cait Calcutt said. Pro-choice groups have also criticised Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott's comments on the film. But pro-life...

It would not hurt Australians to understand the "brutal business" of abortion by watching the abortion of a four-week-old foetus on television, the federal Health Minister, Tony Abbott, said yesterday. The ABC's Compass program will show the graphic BBC documentary My Foetus on Sunday, August 8. The program caused enormous public debate when it was screened in Britain in April. It shows an abortion procedure at four weeks of pregnancy using a "vacuum pump". It also shows an inspection of a foetus aborted at seven weeks of pregnancy and images of 10-, 11- and 21-week aborted foetuses. Mr Abbott -...

THE abortion of a four-week-old foetus will be broadcast on Australian television after the ABC agreed to show the graphic British documentary My Foetus. In what is an Australian first, the film will be broadcast on the religious affairs show Compass on August 8 despite sparking a vehement public debate in Britain. It shows a four-week-old foetus being sucked out of a woman's womb using the "manual vacuum aspiration" technique, and footage of the dismembered remains of foetuses from the ages of 12 to 21 weeks. The film was produced by Julia Black, the daughter of the founder of the...