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Pro-life advocates in Adelaide church communities are being encouraged to create neighbourhood centres to support women experiencing an unexpected pregnancy and who may be contemplating an abortion.
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Pro-life advocates have expressed hope that a controversial abortion bill passed by the Upper House of State Parliament may still be quashed by the Lower House in the new year.
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United States pro-life activists met with a group of South Australian politicians while in Adelaide last month to launch the annual 40 Days for Life Lenten campaign.
As debate rages over abortion, Juli Sharpe, executive officer of Genesis Pregnancy Support, speaks about her experience of helping women facing an unplanned pregnancy.
Pope Francis has asked us to look at life issues in a holistic way, as a total perspective. It comes out of Our Lord’s words: ‘I have come that you may have life and have it to the full’. Pope Francis says that the Christian attitude to life must embrace everything from conception to natural death. And so it covers actions like abortion; it covers actions like capital punishment. It’s odd to be opposed to abortion and yet support capital punishment; there’s a contradiction there.
A pregnancy counselling and support organisation has expressed its deep concern for women’s physical and mental health and safety if a bill proposed by Greens MLC Tammy Franks is passed by State Parliament.
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