Media Release

Children Born Alive Bill a Necessary Reform

The Australian Christian Lobby wholeheartedly supports the Human Rights (Children Born Alive) Bill 2021 that was introduced in Parliament yesterday by George Christensen, MP.

The bill provides that a health practitioner has a duty to administer medical care or treatment to a child born alive during an abortion, in the same way as they would for a child born alive otherwise.

“As a nation we are judged by the way we treat the most vulnerable,” said Martyn Iles, Managing Director of ACL.

“There could be no-one more vulnerable than an innocent newborn child who is left to die alone, without any form of medical care or pain relief, simply because they’re unwanted.”

The situation regularly occurs where a baby is born alive after a failed abortion and no care is provided to the child. Queensland Health has previously confirmed that in cases of a ‘live birth’ abortion, “life-saving care is not rendered to the baby and it is left to perish in the clinic.”

While records are not kept in all states, the available data reveals the following numbers of babies born alive and left to perish:

“Given the extent of this problem – and the gross injustice of failing to care for a living child – we call upon the government to allow the bill to be debated as a Private Member’s Bill,” said Martyn Iles.

“Surely it’s the very least we can do to treat a child born alive as a human being, and offer them essential medical care.”

 

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