The Senate vote is in

I must admit that I am disappointed that the women who sit as senators in the Australian Senate do not have the brains to do the necessary research regarding the safety hazards concerning RU486. They voted solidly in favour of stripping the Minister for Health of the responsibility of letting this drug into Australia.

My gravest concern regarding this action is that they have pushed this as an abortion/anti-abortion issue. However, this is not the case. The issue is the level of safety for people who are given RU486 is not guaranteed because there has been insufficient research prior to its introduction. There are pro-choice people who are very much against the introduction of RU486 as a means of procuring abortion. However, their voices are being drowned out by the hysteria of women such as Lynne Allyson who has proudly announced that she had an abortion. Ms. Allyson has failed in a duty of care because she has not taken the time to learn about the deaths and other injuries associated with chemical abortions. She should take the time to read the book written by Renate Klein and her associates regarding the alarming dangers of RU486.

The hysteria during this week reached an all time low in the history of Australian politics. The issue has been hijacked by women who claim that they have the right to control their ovaries, and so they were heard to chant at Tony Abbott that he should keep his hands on his rosaries and "off my ovaries". It was an effort to drown out those who are seeking to put the truth out into the community. Australian women are not being informed about the truth concerning RU486.

Now that the Senate vote has been made, the amendment must go to the lower house of the parliament, and another vote must be taken. The fight is not over, and it means that we must continue to seek to inform our parliamentarians that this is not about abortion on demand, but about keeping out of Australia, a drug that will take women back to the dark days when the rate of maternal deaths from complications of procured miscarriage were a lot higher than the present time.

Our fight must now move towards informing women in remote areas that chemical abortion is neither safe nor effective, and that if they live in a very remote area of Australia they have a higher risk of dying because of the possible complications associated with taking Mifepristone and the progesterine. If a woman living in a remote region of Australia were to suffer from heavy bleeding, which is a widely discussed side effect of this form of abortion, then she is in a higher risk category of dying as a result of those complications. I cannot envisage that the doctors who are pushing for the use of RU486 are going to be responsible enough to closely monitor their patients. They see RU486 as a means giving the pills to the women and then just sending them on their way.

I continue to question the wisdom of the women parliamentarians who seem so willing to cause harm to other Australian women through their attempt to get access to RU486. They do not want to hear the truth. They prefer to listen to the lie that RU486 is safe and effective.