Barnaby Joyce is a Federal Politician from northern New South Wales, Australia and has been very vocal against the present fight to kill the unborn. Below is a recent email he sent out bringing us up to date on what has occurred in the New South Wales Parliament.
‘I commend the parliamentarians who fought so hard to stop the arbitrary classification of a section of humanity to be without human rights. I want to thank those state politicians who fought for a person to be respected with the rights they have by reason of being alive.
Most importantly, I would like to thank you so much for putting your shoulder to the wheel and not sitting, saying and doing nothing.
Tragically, the overwhelming disgrace of this bill has passed through the NSW Parliament, though with the mollified amendment that abortions after 22 weeks can be carried out only if there is serious danger to a woman’s physical or mental health. This is the current law; the status quo for a person after 22 weeks – so it poses the question: what was wider purpose of the other changes and their motivations?
Prior to 22 weeks of life, pets covered by the RSPCA have more rights than a person. It would be safer place to be a dog in a yard than the protections this new legislation allows. (Emphasis added)
I am so bitterly disappointed that we are now saying it is OK to kill a person in the month they would otherwise be born and walk this beautiful world like you or me. I believe it is barbaric that a person can be mutilated without pain relief because delivering that child would acknowledge that they are a person.
This bill does what it was designed to do – sanitise the perverse logic that someone is subhuman.
They will now try and cover this disgrace with the distraction that this was merely about decriminalising abortion – which has in fact been legal for decades.
The reality of what they have just done is to take, by all intents and purposes, a large step to the removal of any prohibition on the killing of a person to full term. A person inside another person is not a person under this new legislation.
Now however, they will try and rid you from the public forum. You spoil their story and you inspire guilt with your advocacy of the truth of this matter.
They will try and say it never happened, they were never there, they couldn’t make it, it was not their business.
More than anything else, they will try and make you forget this day where a vote in favour of legislation by one group in a building on Macquarie Street allowed a person who could of been born to be killed.
But we will fight on.
Kind regards,
Barnaby Joyce MP,
The Nationals Member for New England’