A Grief Observed
I watched “The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas” the other night – now out on video and well worth watching. Set in wartime it is about a German boy who talks and then befriends a Jewish boy inside a concentration camp.
The reality is gripping. This is not a movie for children.
Yes, there is grief. Grief for the [...]
The Cove is now showing at The Paradiso in Perth and other Australian theatres. This is a movie about dolphins www.thecovemovie.com
Dolphins appeal to everyone with their gracefulness, intelligence, ability to communicate, and apparent sense of family and community. It also seems that they have a natural desire to please, an instinctive trust and, it would seem from the [...]
We are urged to use fair-minded speech in the abortion debate. Fair enough, but is telling the truth not fair-minded? How would we have got by without telling the truth on any abuse or social evil over the ages? Would reforms have come? Think of the power of a photograph in telling the truth – there are many thousands [...]
In light of these attacks on conscience and integrity and the specific threats to Christian belief and practice what is our response?
Do we deny the reality of the problems? As many of the German people did “no, no, we are German – this could not possibly happen”.
Do we just accept the fact that these limitations of [...]
How bad does a government have to get before individual MPs wake up and say this is enough? How bad does it have to get before God’s people mobilise and waken the rest of the community to throw such a government out?
Surely the overthrowing of liberty of conscience in the abortion legislation was enough. If we crush [...]
Many of you will be aware of the battle for liberty of conscience in medicine both here and overseas – the latter particularly in USA where President Obama is threatening to overturn Liberty of Conscience legislation protecting health workers.
Here of course it has been most evident in Victoria with the legislation last year forcing doctors [...]
“At the heart of this (fire) tragedy” writes George Megalogenis in The Weekend Australian Feb14-15 2009 “is a clear failure of public policy, and official imagination.”
Sound familiar? The US inquiry into September 11th 2001 found that there was a failure to realise the threat, a failure to be organised and watchful, a failure to share information, and [...]
Conflict in Medicine – Reflections on the Abortion Bill
That such a bill could be approved by MPs in Australia really stretches credibility e.g. a doctor must perform an emergency abortion when the mother’s life is in danger. As has been said by others, this situation is a “clinical fiction” but why not just induce labour? Why does [...]
UPDATE Monday 29 Sept.
The detailed letter from Victorian doctors has now been shortened Doctors in Conscience Against Abortion Bill. It is still worth Victorian doctors signing on by contacting Dr Eamonn Mathieson eamonn.1@bigpond.net.au.
The longer letter is still available.
A new website is up and partially running doctorsconscience.org
Non-Victorian doctors can still sign in to the letter below or to Medicine With Morality.
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An Urgent [...]
Dear MP,
Re Abortion Law Reform Bill 2008.
We write in support of the letter Doctors in Conscience Against Abortion Bill from medical practitioners in Victoria . That letter identifies problems with the bill and we urge reading before casting a conscience vote.
The purpose of this letter is to highlight some of the consequences to individuals, the medical [...]