Why is protecting life a crime?

But if the woman does not want that exact same child, then we are prepared to let that child be treated like so much garbage to be thrown out. (In Queensland there are 15,000 babies deliberately aborted each year - one baby aborted for every three born alive.) This is inexcusably inconsistent.

It should also be noted that in 2002 the Queensland Court of Appeal upheld a Supreme Court ruling (Bowditch v McEwan and Orrs) that a mother has a duty of care to her unborn child. Given this, can such a duty of care simply evaporate in order to allow for the destruction of the child’s life by abortion to take place?

To try and remedy this hypocritical situation, we can take one of two options. One option would be to take section 313 (2) back out of the Criminal Code. But how could that be justified? The reason the section was added was because it was so evident how manifestly unjust it was that a pregnant woman’s child could be killed, yet the destruction of that child’s life had to go unrecognised and unpunished.

The other option would be to close down the abortion clinics.

Of course though, we could just try and ignore this dilemma and simply continue to live as hypocrites. After all, other societies have managed to live with double standards - double standards which resulted in such horrors as the enslavement of dark-skinned people and the destruction of the Jews.

But not all of us are willing to just “live with” this particular horror.

Returning to the scenario at the beginning of this article: If someone had come to the rescue of the pregnant woman and her unborn child being attacked in the street, they would be rightly applauded.

But, if someone should non-violently come to the aid of that same child about to be taken through the doors of an abortion clinic to be killed by an abortionist, we want to lock that rescuer up. Why? After all, section 273 of the Queensland Criminal Code does allow a person to use reasonable force when coming to the defence of another.