G’Day from Australia!
G’Day from Australia, pro-life mates! Rich and I arrived in Melbourne 15 hours ago after just as long a flight from Los Angeles.
Let me also be the first to wish you Happy Independence Day, since the clock just struck midnight July 4 here.
I look forward to speaking around the country for the next two weeks.
In Australia the legal status of abortion is determined on a state-by-state basis, like the U.S. pre-Roe. In Victoria, where I’m at currently, abortion, including partial-birth abortion, is basically available on demand partially through delivery. Earlier this year two Australian “ethicists” made headlines for advocating “after birth abortion,” otherwise known as infanticide.
So Australian pro-lifers have their work cut out for them. Pray I can be of assistance and encouragement.
I’ll blog when I can. Meanwhile the great volunteers overseeing the Quote of the Day, Pro-life Video of the Day, Pro-Life News Briefs, and Pro-Life Blog Buzz will carry on.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
God Speed, Jill!!
Praying for changed hearts and minds!
Are there Right to Life marches in AU?
Be sure to have some shrimp on the barbie while you’re there. :)
Pleasure to have you here Jill. Hope to meet you when you come to Sydney. Incidentally, my family doctor is John James, National President of Right to Life Australia.
By the way JDC, it’s a prawn, not a shrimp :-)
Blessings to all on your trip! LL ;)
Welcome to Oz. We do have a lot of work to do, especially here in Victoria where there is no protection at all for our unborn brotheres and sisters.
So very cool, i wish i could see you speak. I will be praying for you.
Todd
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May GOD grant you favor and may your thoughts, words and actions reflect HIS unconditional love for the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve.
Take me with you!
Yay!! Welcome, Jill! I can’t wait to meet you face-to-face in a few days.
Yes, we really have our work cut out for us down here, but we are so encouraged by our friends in the US who are willing to boldly and wisely take a stand for the unborn, their families and our community. You have been raised up for such a time as this.
Carder- yes, there are annual marches/rallies in Melbourne, Brisbane and Perth, on dates relevant to the legislation in each state. There may be others that i’m not aware of, tho i do try to keep in good contact with groups all around the country. The media blackout is even more intense then surrounds the March For Life. 40DFL is also off to a good start down here.
The annual March for the Babies is on October 13 in Melbourne. It was in October 2008 that Victoria’s extreme Abortion Laws were passed.