Pro Life Victoria (PLV), once a rival but now practically a sister organisation to Margaret Tighe’s Right to Life Australia, is getting very hot and bothered about Labor Premier Steve Bracks:

… Bracks has done a deal to ‘decriminalise’ abortion if he wins the November election … We need every Victorian who has ever been pro-life … to come onboard a campaign to stop this barbarity. Otherwise we will be giving in to the obsessive demands of former failed Premier Joan Kirner and [current minister] Mary Delahunty who are browbeating the Premier and Attorney General Rob Hulls into submission to their ideological goals. (PLV Action Alert May 2006)

No doctor has been successfully prosecuted under Victoria’s abortion law for well over 30 years and calls for its preservation seem anachronistic. As if to remind us how out of touch they are, PLV is distributing old Right to Life postcards. Remember them, you ancient pro-choicers out there? - a photo of a baby with the legend: ‘Kill her now it’s murder … Kill her before birth it’s abortion.’ It should be worth attending a PLV demonstration if they decide to mount one, just to see the crinolines and button-up boots.

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