Urgent Rally against the NSW bill on Abortion — Wednesday 7th May 2025

Posted on April 28, 2025 
Filed under Culture wars, NSW

An important rally coming up on Wednesday 7th May outside NSW Parliament House.

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See also:

Doctors’ conscience protection under threat – SydneyAnglicans.net, 19 March 2025.

“The New South Wales Parliament is considering a bill to force medical practitioners to facilitate abortions, against their conscience.

At present, doctors can object and not take part in referring patients for abortion. But the Greens party has put forward a bill that would scrap that protection for doctors and force them to refer women for abortion in violation of their conscience. …”

and see:

“Anglican Church Diocese of Sydney Social Issues Committee
Statement on current Abortion Law Reform proposals in NSW

The Social Issues Committee of the Anglican Diocese of Sydney, along with the Archbishop of Sydney, the Most Reverend Kanishka Raffel, expresses serious concerns about the Abortion Law Reform Amendment (Health Care Access) Bill 2025, introduced by Greens MLC Dr Amanda Cohn. We have written to the Premier of NSW, the Opposition Leader, and the Leader of the Nationals urging them to oppose the Bill.

This Bill does not address abortion’s legality, already covered in existing laws, but seeks to expand abortion services at the cost of diminishing freedom of conscience and religion for NSW citizens.

If passed, Dr Cohn’s Bill would allow the Minister of Health to mandate public health organisations to provide abortion services. It would also require health practitioners who object to abortion on moral grounds to transfer patients to others who will perform the procedure. …” – issued 20 March 2025.

– Read the full statement at SydneyAnglicans.net.