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# Australia’s 'Baby Bonus' Now Funds Late-Term Abortions
- URL: https://uoj.news/news/84839-australias-baby-bonus-now-funds-late-term-abortions/
- Published: 2025-07-23T20:48:00.000Z
- Updated: 2026-09-25T16:10:27.000Z
- Description: Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is offering women up to $20,000 worth of leave for having a late-term abortion.
- Author: News
- Tags: #Category: News, Australia, Abortion

**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.”