“WE’RE not going to be silenced by the bullies in media and politics trying to stop us speaking up for the 88,000 babies killed every year in Australia,” says anti-abortion campaigner and Adelaide law professor Dr Joanna Howe.
The high-energy campaigner organised a highly effective political campaign to fight a Greens MP’s private members bill designed to turn abortion in NSW into an industrial-scale killing operation devoid of any moral restraints.
“Exactly as I predicted two days ago on X, the hit pieces are now coming in thick and fast but to be honest I think most Australians are waking up to this bs and I think they’re actually counterproductive as now more and more people who’d never heard of me are getting in touch and following along,” Dr Howe wrote on a social media post.
A number of leftist NSW Liberals including their leader Mark Speakman and Labor Premier Chris Minns exercised their “conscience” to vote in favour of the gutted bill which will allow nurse-practitioners and endorsed midwives to prescribe “abortion medication” for early stage pregnancies in the form of the dangerous RU486 (mifepristone) pills that can cause serious haemmoraging along with a range of other reactions. Big pharma is joyous.
The pathetic Speakman accused Dr Howe of “brazen bullying”, declaring he would not “cave in” in the face of political threats. Dr Howe had originally told Premier Minns she would organise a 20-month campaign to unseat Labor in five marginal seats. She later shifted this warning to the Liberals.
Speakman, reading in parliament an email he received from Dr Howe, said she “threatened his leadership, leaving him in a state of shock.” “If you choose to vote for the bill, I will be left with no other choice but to suspend my planned campaign against Labor, in order to lead a public campaign aimed at encouraging a grassroots opposition to you as Liberal leader.”
Labor MP Julia Finn, went on a whining rant in the Parliament House (see 11m 5sec) , accusing Dr Howe of bullying, employing “bizarre and nasty” tactics and “spreading misinformation”, in addition to “obnoxious, attention-seeking behaviour”.
The MP would have us believe that what Dr Howe does is “not proper lobbying” and she should have been “seeking meetings” and “presenting rational arguments”. Apparently Ms Finn thinks people seeking to change abortion laws are naive enough to think your average Green or Labor MP would go out of their way to listen.
What upset Ms Finn so much was that Dr Howe organised a group to visit all Labor MPs’ offices to make known their opposition to the bill. Ms Finn instructed her office staff to call police “if anything got out of hand”.
She was also upset that Dr Howe entered her office and spoke to her senior electorate officer “who was heavily pregnant and on her last day of work before maternity leave”. Oh the irony. Furthermore, noted Ms Finn, someone “snuck in” behind Dr Howe and took video of the interaction between Dr Howe and the electorate officer and posted it without consent.
Ms Finn, it transpires, was kicked out of the Emily’s List group of abortion-supporting Labor women MPs because she voted against the 2019 legislation which allows abortion up to birth. Ms Finn, however, supports abortion up to 22 weeks. Apparently such a compromise is not good enough for the Emily’s List coven of child killers.
