Snippet: Puerile Politics

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Miska Gora nails it. More and more impressed by her firm thoughtfulness on this.

“It doesn’t matter when we think the unborn child becomes a person because we’re not actually thinking about the unborn child. We’re thinking about ourselves and how this unexpected event will ruin all our plans. We have become control freaks who can’t cope with the vagaries of life. We are so obsessed with autonomy that we refuse to recognise we are just frail human beings whose lives can be snuffed out in an instant. Children are no longer considered a fact of life but an inconvenient burden. We resent anything that reminds us that we’re not in control.”

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The Tasmanian parliament has finally passed the Reproductive Health (Access to Terminations) Act 2013 after a drawn-out committee process and numerous amendments. The original bill was a highly fla…

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