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Broken Bay joins thousands at pro-life rally

prolife rally 3 webThe community of the Catholic Diocese of Broken Bay joined thousands of protesters in Martin Place on 20 August to oppose new abortion legislation in NSW.

As many as 5000 people attended the rally to register their opposition to the Reproductive Health Care Reform Bill, which threatened to pass without public consultation.

In his statement about the proposed legislation on 6 August, Diocesan Administrator Very Rev Dr David Ranson said that the widening of the scope of the practice of abortion, which the proposed legislation suggests, is unacceptable.

“If with legal sanction we kill those who are most vulnerable, either at the beginning or at the end of their life, we rob ourselves of our human dignity which is best demonstrated in a quality of care exercised even in the face of life’s demand and challenge. Such an option represents a gross failure of social imagination and public moral leadership.”

Premier Gladys Berejiklian has announced that the legislation been deferred until the next sitting week of Parliament, beginning 17 September.

Read Fr David Ranson's statement from 6 August.

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