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1. I undertsand that the main charge laid by the Queensland Police is that of the illegal importation of a drug. The side issue of abortion is being blown out of proportions by the advocates for unfettered slaughter of unborn children.

   Posted By: John FG McMahon

2. We have no excuse for ignorance any more. From scientific research in the last several decades, we know for example that an unborn baby's heart is beating and pumping blood round a closed circulatory system at 21 DAYS! We can see the moving child through ultrasound. We know it is a living human being. Why then, at our convenience (when it suits us), do we pretend that it is a piece of disposable lifeless tissue?
   In our modern "wisdom", confronted with the truth, one would expect that we would make great efforts to remedy our past mistakes, which should mean that we would become more and more protective of the unborn - not become more and more barbaric and desensitised, through accepting abortion.
   The trouble is that in accepting double standards, we do not know where we stand. This couple is the tiniest tip of a huge iceberg we pretend does not exist.
   

   Posted By: Joe

3. This is a national crisis, not just in Queensland. Next month the National Drugs and Poisons Schedule Committee will be deciding how to classify this so-called ”medical abortion services” drug mifepristone (RU486). It is calling for submissions from the public.
   
   See http://www.tga.gov.au/ndpsc/ndpscgan.htm
   Item 5.4 for the October meeting.
   
   ANYONE can make a submission in any format. The Committee is obliged to consider all submissions received before 16th September and which address matters mentioned in Section 52E of the Therapeutic Goods Act,
   http://www.austlii.edu.au/au/legis/cth/consol_act/tga1989191/s52e.html
   including the toxicity, risks, potential hazards, potential for abuse, the purposes for which it is to be used.
   
   Please, anyone who wants to protect innocent human life, write and urge the committee to BAN this human pesticide, which if approved would turn EVERY doctor’s office into a take-away abortion shop.
   
   Its proponents are pushing the line "just take a pill and the baby will go away" but the effects on the mother as well as the baby are horrific. The mother is sent away, often to give birth to a clearly identifiable baby, which she then has to dispose of.
   
   Send submissions to
   The Secretary
   National Drugs and Poisons Schedule Committee
   GPO Box 9848
   CANBERRA ACT 2601
   e-mail NDPSC@health.gov.au. Facsimile 02- 6289 2500
   

   Posted By: Sharon Lee

4. "Nobody should ever be put in this situation," said Caroline de Costa, the Cairns based professor of obstetrics who suspended her abortion service ..."
   
   Professor of something quite different more like it.
   
   Who actually "put" these parents "in this situation"?
   
   Obviously not the child, whom they want the right to kill.
   
   I hope everyone takes Sharon's advice above ... thanks Sharon.

   Posted By: Chris Saidou

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