Comment Re:Parodies, "fair use" and Melbourne IT (Score 2, Informative) 289
This is the ultimate in misinformation.
The government and Senator Brian Harradine deny any such deal over the abortion drug years and years ago. It's a Labor meme.
Sen. Harradine's roots were in Labor and he would cause any American Liberalometer to explode. He happens to be a Catholic and care about life issues, like many from both the major parties. I'm sure you would think that good enough to call him a `Christian fundie' and part of the `Christian Right', but non-Australian readers would think from your descriptions that he was a Protestant Evangelical with an organised church infrastructure, rather than a socially conservative unionist. The very characterisation is of a piece with the sectarian nab on the Health Minister who happens to be a Catholic, even though he says that the abortion question has been settled and I, for one, don't think that I could vote for him in conscience.
Non-Australian readers also mightn't realise that abortion remains criminal in most of Australia. Much as it is tolerated by the adoption of foreign precedents, in the context that it is basically criminal, an abortion pill requires closer supervision by Parliament, rather than the new act's pretence that the whole issue is `therapeutic' and can be farmed out to technical bodies.
The private members' bill was a power grab taking advantage of anti-Catholic prejudice.
The government and Senator Brian Harradine deny any such deal over the abortion drug years and years ago. It's a Labor meme.
Sen. Harradine's roots were in Labor and he would cause any American Liberalometer to explode. He happens to be a Catholic and care about life issues, like many from both the major parties. I'm sure you would think that good enough to call him a `Christian fundie' and part of the `Christian Right', but non-Australian readers would think from your descriptions that he was a Protestant Evangelical with an organised church infrastructure, rather than a socially conservative unionist. The very characterisation is of a piece with the sectarian nab on the Health Minister who happens to be a Catholic, even though he says that the abortion question has been settled and I, for one, don't think that I could vote for him in conscience.
Non-Australian readers also mightn't realise that abortion remains criminal in most of Australia. Much as it is tolerated by the adoption of foreign precedents, in the context that it is basically criminal, an abortion pill requires closer supervision by Parliament, rather than the new act's pretence that the whole issue is `therapeutic' and can be farmed out to technical bodies.
The private members' bill was a power grab taking advantage of anti-Catholic prejudice.
