Australia’s 'Baby Bonus' Now Funds Late-Term Abortions
PM Albanese. Source: Sky News
SYDNEY — The Albanese government’s new parental payment policy in Australia, offering a $4,255 Stillbirth Parenting Payment or $20,147 Paid Parental Leave for women who abort after 20 weeks, has ignited fierce debate.
Critics, including pro-life lawyer Dr. Joanna Howe, condemn the policy as incentivizing late-term abortions, which involve injecting a baby’s heart with potassium chloride or digoxin to induce stillbirth.
Howe notes, “The Albanese Government is now incentivising late-term abortion in half the time” compared to the Howard Government’s Baby Bonus, originally designed to support childbirth. In South Australia, 80% of late-term abortions involve healthy babies, intensifying ethical concerns.
One midwife reported a woman planning to use the payment for a Bali trip, highlighting the policy’s perceived misuse. Critics argue it perverts the concept of parental support, likening it to dystopian “newspeak” from Orwell’s 1984. Pro-life advocates urge citizens to sign petitions, contact lawmakers, and pray for policy change, decrying the use of taxpayer funds to “encourage the termination of pregnancies after twenty weeks.”
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