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Salad, wine and decapitating babies

By Babette Francis - posted Tuesday, 28 July 2015


I am wondering how Planned Parenthood and other abortionists who have assured women presenting for abortion - and the rest of us - that abortion just gets rid of a "clump of cells", "tissue products of conception" and other euphemisms, can now be selling hearts, livers, kidneys and the heads of the unborn?

This is story the US media is doing its best to ignore, as is the Australian media, with the honourable exception of Peter Sellick in Online Opinion (24/5/15) and Miranda Devine in The Telegraph (25/715) but Australians read about it first in the email news from Endeavour Forum Inc on 23/7/65. Miranda Devine writes that Australian researchers also use fetal tissue "whose provenance is opaque".

At a morning tea meeting organized in June by my Federal MP, Kelly O'Dwyer, with the Hon. Scott Morrison, Minister for Social Services, I commended him for querying while he was in Opposition why the Labor Government was funding International Planned Parenthood Federation (IPPF) as part of Australian foreign aid, and asked what he was doing about this now he was in Government. He replied that "We should not be funding abortion in our foreign aid and I don't think we are".

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In 2013 Australia gave International Planned Parenthood Federation $Aust6 million in unrestricted funds. The total income for IPPF that year was $US136.l million, so Australia's contribution works out at 3.447% of the total. In 2013 IPPF funded 874,868 abortions, so Australian taxpayers funded about 30,161 of these abortions. Australia's funding was probably authorised under the previous Labor government. I have written twice to Minister Morrison asking what the current funding is, and I am awaiting his answer. Watch this space for his reply, and also for news of further videos released by the Centre for Medical Progress.

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Babette Francis, (BSc.Hons), mother of eight, is the National & Overseas Co-ordinator of Endeavour Forum Inc. an NGO with special consultative status with the Economic & Social Council of the UN. Mrs. Francis is the Australian representative of the Coalition on Abortion/Breast Cancer - www.abortionbreastcancer.com. She lived in India during the Partition of the sub-continent into India and Pakistan, a historical event that she believes was caused by the unwillingness of the Muslim leaders of that era to live in a secular democracy.

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