Should abortion be legalised in Queensland?

Vote NO!!!




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Marriage encourages unified parenting

By nature, every child has a mother and a father. Marriage encourages unified parenting, providing a default establishment of legal paternity for any child born to the bride, and providing children with protection, nurturing, and provision from both a male and a female role model. Every child, barring incarceration or otherwise strict seclusion, will interact with both women and men throughout his life, and this being raised with the inclusive diversity of both a male and female role model is to his benefit.

While there are parents who die, abandon their children, or must have their parental rights restricted or terminated to protect children, in general, marriage encourages stability and cooperation in childrearing and otherwise codifies a child's natural right to her mother and father.

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Dr. Edward Green, director of the AIDS Prevention Research Project at Harvard confirms that condoms do not prevent AIDS

Dr. EDWARD GREEN affirmed the Pope's teaching in an address this past Tuesday at the 30th Annual Rimini Meeting for Friendship Among the Peoples, sponsored by the Communion and Liberation lay movement.

"As a scientist [I] was amazed to see the closeness between what the Pope said last March in Cameroon and the results of the most recent scientific discoveries," said Dr. Green. "The condom does not prevent AIDS. Only responsible sexual behavior can address the pandemic."

"When Benedict XVI said that different sexual behavior should be adopted in Africa, because to put trust in condoms does not serve to fight against AIDS," he continued, "the international press was scandalized."

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The Passion of the Christ star, Jim Caviezel says that abortion has nothing to do with helping women

JIM CAVIEZEL, the actor who took the film world by surprise with his moving depiction of Christ in the movie, "The Passion of the Christ," said this week that abortion has nothing to do with helping women and that he is willing to risk his career to say so.

Caviezel gave an interview with the US magazine Catholic Digest, in which he spoke about the challenge he received from a colleague to adopt a disabled child as a demonstration of his well-publicized pro-life stand.

Reflecting on the 51.5 million surgical abortions to date in the US since Roe v. Wade, Caviezel said...

"Look, I am for helping women. I just don't see abortion as helping women. And I don't love my career that much to say, 'I'm going to remain silent on this'. I'm defending every single baby who has never been born. And every voice that would have been unique like Johnny Mathis's. How do we know that we didn't kill the very child who could have created a particular type of medicine that saves other lives?"

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Is it up to marriage supporters to prove that same sex marriage will harm society?

...In most places, it isn't up to us to demonstrate that there will be harm. The burden of convincing falls on the people asking for change. The federal government and all but a handful of states recognize marriage as uniting the sexes, so in those cases, it is those who want to neuter marriage who must demonstrate why doing so would be of overall net benefit to society. While a marriage license may solve practical challenges for a brideless or groomless couple, those issues can be addressed without neutering state marriage licensing.

The universal understanding of marriage has been that it unites a bride and a groom. Only recently, in a few places, has there been deviation from this concept.

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A Queensland abortion supporter fails in her bid to decriminalise abortion

Dr Carole Ford says she is disappointed a petition demanding abortion law reform, has not been tabled in State Parliament. Dr Ford wants to change the law so that abortions are not included in Queensland's Criminal Code.


Only 800 signatures have been gathered in support of her radical views so far. It is unknown if Carole Ford is an abortionist her self or just supports the killing of unborn children.


The petition was deemed ineligible for tabling because of an abortion case that is due to be heard in the courts next month where a woman and her partner are to face court charged with smuggling the drug RU486 in from overseas to kill their unborn child.



http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/18/2659294.htm

Sex change verses a sexual orientation change

A man goes to a psychologist with a problem. "Doctor," he says, "I'm suffering terribly. I feel like a woman trapped inside the body of a man. I want to become a woman."


The psychologist responds: "No problem. We can discuss this idea for a couple of years, and if you're still sure you want to be a woman, we can have a surgeon remove your penis, give you hormones for breast enlargement and make other changes to your body. Problem solved."


Gratified, the first patient leaves, followed by a second. "Doctor," he says, "I feel terrible. I'm a man but I feel attracted to other men. I want to change my sexual preference. I want to become heterosexual." The psychologist responds: "Oh no, absolutely not! That would be unethical. Sexual orientation is an immutable characteristic!"


The irony of this little tale is that, while reading like a joke, it is in reality an accurate description of the mental health professions today. While dismissing and condemning reparative therapy for homosexual orientation, the majority of psychiatrists and psychologists in Anglophone North America have embraced the concept of "sex change," a procedure that does nothing more than mutilate the patient to appease his confused mind.

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