"Anti-abortion fight likened to bid to end slavery"

We are thankful that the Brisbane Times has run an article entitled "Anti-abortion fight likened to bid to end slavery" on 8 February 2012. You can read the article here.

Our 40 Days for Life group in Brisbane is always pleased to get media attention - this allows the broader public to see what's going on behind closed doors in the abortion industry.

I would like to make the following comments that should be read in conjunction with that article, to clarify what we do.

• We have never been a "protest". A protest invokes images of chanting and yelling, things we have never, ever done. We are silently praying. We do not approach women, but are happy to talk to them if they need to talk to us

• In reference to the clinic director's comments, their "patients' privacy and safety" is not their number one concern. Their number one concern is making money. Ask them how many abortions they would carry out if they had to do them for free.

• In response to the headline "Anti-abortion fight likened to bid to end slavery", this is not quite what was said or intended. I made reference to the thinking on slavery being acceptable to being unacceptable, and that is what 40 Days for Life is intending - to change peoples' thinking that abortion is acceptable to being unacceptable.

• In reference to the clinic director's comment that "a woman's decision to terminate her pregnancy is a matter for her and her doctor" doesn't give any validation to the human being that is about to be killed in the womb. Science has proven time and again that a human is formed at conception and this is widely agreed by both pro-life and pro-choice debaters, especially doctors who perform abortions.

We look forward to another successful 40 Days for Life prayer campaign in 2012. If you would like to be part of our vigil or to find out more, please go to 40daysforlife.com/Brisbane